CreepCast - Gr3gory88 | CreepCast

Episode Date: March 24, 2024

The lads take on their first horror twitter arg with Gr3gory88. A man inherits a house from his dead grandfather but soon finds out that he inherited much more... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to another enthralling episode of Creepcast I need to get like a nice Tales from the Crypt or like a nice Dracula laugh We need like a nice evil laugh We do We need to pay Some absurd actor too much money We need to get like

I know he's dead But like the Vincent Price laugh You know Exactly yeah yeah I bet we could get Christopher Walken, I bet he's got a good laugh. We can commission that. That's a good use of income.

That's what I imagine Christopher Walker. Yeah, I'd love to just be like, welcome back to Creepcast. Ah! Today we are stepping out of her, this is the first time, this is virgin territory we're going into on this show. It is the first time we were stepping out of no sleep,

our comfort zone, and we are going into Twitter ARGs, which if you want to explain with Twitter ARGs to people so they kind of know what's going on. Absolutely. So basically, a Twitter ARG is normally when someone creates a Twitter account or at least a story within Twitter, where they imply themselves to be the individual going through the stuff they're going through. Some popular examples of that is things like Dear David. That's an example where the creator, just a normal Twitter user who's like, so this strange thing's been happening to me. And they start to catalog supernatural events.

That's one example. Another example is when you have an entire Twitter account. dedicated to a story like the sun vanished that's a very popular one and the one we're going to be covering today is another example of a completely dedicated account and that is the gregory 88 account so are you familiar at all with the gregory 88 plot line no i don't know any of these i'm going in fresh i mean i had a couple questions for it because it seems like you have experienced some of these before like whenever people make these accounts right do they uh do how long does it take for people to realized like oh this is becoming like this is this is what this is or did some of these start before people even knew what this archetype of storytelling was a lot of them started before like

the concept became popular like um for example the dear david guy adam ellis that's his name uh the dear david guy adam ellis he was just a normal twitter user for years i believe he worked at buzzfeed or at least uh the movie got picked up by buzzfeed eventually but he He does, he does, like, comics, like, he does comedic comics and stuff like that. Um, so he was, like, a popular Twitter user who all of a sudden was like, strange things are happening around my apartment. So that takes a really long time for people to be like, is this real, is this, you know, a story or is this something strange actually happening to this guy? And some of the best Twitter ARGs kind of keep it in a gray zone, right, of maybe this is someone who individually, like for you, Hunter, if, for example, tomorrow you're like, there's this weird thing I keep seeing. around the property and you start to catalog it, that could be an example of people not knowing

if it's real or not. But typically, like, if someone starts in a, like, a burner account to be like, there's something in the woods. Like, people catch on pretty quick. Um, but what's interesting about the format is where something like No Sleep makes the writer find creative ways to convey their piece of work or what have you to the audience. Um, like, for example, they'll get to the end of the story and they'll be like if anyone's reading this blah blah blah it's posted here whereas on the twitter args normally they are constantly keeping up with replies tweets things people are saying it's like a live interaction with people who are reading which is pretty cool you can do some neat stuff with it yeah i mean that was kind of similar to the my girlfriend uh my dead girlfriend's

message of me on facebook story yeah as well kind of interacting in that way that kind of like interaction with these horror stories is such a fascinating way to Cohen. And do we know exactly who Greg is? Not that I know of. It may be known later on because the Gregory, so I'm actually familiar with this story specifically. I don't remember how it ends, which is useful for what we're doing today. But I remember reading, like whenever this ARG first started up, I saw some tweets about it and was like keeping up with it. I don't think I kept up with it till the ending. But I remember as it was coming out, there were a lot of

people like oh cool what's happening oh and like interacting with him and stuff but i don't i don't remember him ever revealing himself as a creator of the author so it looks like the first tweet here was in july 22nd 2018 um pretty simple straightforward guess i'm going to try twitter again with a nice uh with a nice uh little what do you do emoji yeah just like it's a new social media account there's some early tweets in it where it's just kind of like hey i'm back to Twitter, oh, I'm watching this TV show. This food was really good at the club last night, just kind of making it feel lived in. Then our story begins on August the 27th of 2018. So the account existed for like a month before Gregory 88 got into the story of it, basically.

Yeah, I mean, there's just some simple post of like he's showing cocktails, he's showing like food, kind of give, like a normal, a really, really normal approach to this stuff. I mean, it looks like it's just, I mean, like, you know, August 5th, maybe this year, I, I'll, I will finally i'll watch lost it's kind of funny yeah yeah just like basic tweets yeah right and then you said it was yeah august 27th 2018 gregg finds he says just found out my grandpa died never really knew him but still kind of a an interesting little segue there and then uh he has one follow-up says my mom never wanted to talk about him and i've never really asked sad face that is a sad face emoji moment.

What's fun about it, too, is if you go to the replies on that tweet, it's a bunch of people tagging their friends being like, it starts here. This is the first tweet. You can start here. It's right here. Please start here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You may begin.

That's fun. Guys grandpa died. It's right here. That is funny. All the tags. Interesting. So this is just the nice little jumping off point. So does that mean, too, that whenever this first came out, because it's a thousand likes,

it's not like some viral thing. I was almost expecting some of these tweets to have like, I don't know, 40,000 likes, you know, just to show like, oh, hey, look at the engagement on these, but it's relatively, I mean, little, like, it's still, like, with the amount of likes there's on it, it still feels very, uh, real. Yeah, yeah, it feels like it could still be like a hidden little story you came across, which is like the really fun part about these ARGs, because imagine if you just came across this. Like, you didn't see it in a YouTube video or someone who didn't say it was scary. It just popped up in your feed one day. that's pretty cool that is cool October 29th we have him he says made a new friend and it's a picture of a slug a nice little

a nice little snail uh so there you go and then it looks like it looks like it picks back up on October 29th again later on click on that tweet and then go to the top of the thread and this is our first dive into the storyline all right yeah and we want to I want to preface as we want to preface this as well

is that a lot of these are going to be like let us find these tweets It's a kind of, it's a weird, it's going to be a weird juggling act just to make sure that we're properly doing this. That we're not missing anything, yeah. Exactly. The narrative is being directed correctly. So like it, like he said, October 29th, 2018, it looks like at the beginning of this thread, it says, something weird is happening in the woods outside my house and I don't know what to do. Okay, there you go.

Yeah, 12,000 likes. So I was like, now we're starting to get to someplace here. Cool. So now we've truly get into the story on October the 29th of 2018. It reads, Something weird is happening in the woods outside my house, and I don't know what to do. I guess I should start at the beginning. This isn't really my house.

It was my grandpa's, but I guess it's mine now. He died a couple months ago, and because of some tricky paperwork, I'm apparently responsible for it now. He lived pretty far away, up in the mountains by the lake. There are a couple other houses down the road, but they seemed like they're empty for the season. I assume they're summer houses. I've been here for a few days, and it's really pretty pretty. pretty but it's super quiet and chilly and then he attaches some images of what the nearby you know what the property looks like yeah basically a picture of a lake essentially and just

it's a very wooded area very isolated is what it looks like yeah if you if you've seen for audio listeners if you've seen woods and water before just picture that yeah yeah have you ever seen a lake before yeah you ever seen like water but it's in one place and outside that's what it is yeah i know it's a weird concept i know he continues on from that and says my mom never talked about my grandpa and i only met him once when i was really young i think they had a bad relationship but the few times i asked about it she got annoyed and changed the subject so basically i don't really know what i'm doing here this guy from my grandpa's estate basically told me the house is mine now so i came up here to

sell it as fast as i can and go home i guess it's not that easy to just sell a house especially one in the middle of nowhere. At any rate, I think I'm alone up here, or at least I was. I figured I'd be up here for a couple weeks to get all this handled, and then I'd go home and be done with it. I'm on a break from grad school, so I don't have any other responsibilities at the moment. But now, weird things are starting to happen. It started on my third day here. There's a little town about 25 minutes away, and I'd gone to get some food and supply since I don't know how long I'm staying. When I got back that evening There was something strange on my door

It was this artifact I don't know what to call it It was obviously handmade It was made of sticks and twine And had some small bones Tied into the middle of it And for our audio listeners here I would say it's reminiscent

It's basically a Like thin sticks making a triangle And in the center of the triangle Are two bones that are kind of tied between a small piece of twine. I would say very much just kind of think of like Blair Witch Project. Yeah, that's what I was going to say.

Yeah. Something, one of those things in the woods. Not necessarily a figure, but just a triangle. Still, very creepy. Yeah, yeah. Basically comes home. There's this weird thing that looks like, probably like small animal bones,

although I guess you could say those maybe finger bones. Can I go on a limb here? Sorry to interject. The first time I see this on my door, I'm not going back. I'm leaving. I'm leaving, yeah. Grandpa just dropped off, gave me a new house, and the area is kind of pretty.

And there's a, a pagan, art of that just on my door? Hello? No. I'm already, I, it was this artifact question mark? I don't know, man. It's this part of the movie where I'm like, why would you not just run away immediately? Oh, it must be the neighbors. They seem so friendly around here.

It was probably just an inquisitive fox I bet this was the work of a friend and nothing else Grandpa always said there were friends in these woods And now I know what he meant Well see now I want your What he does next I want your opinion on that

So after that tweet he says I didn't think too much of it at the time I figured it was probably a kid from one of the other houses Trying to mess with me So I took it off the door and tossed it in the fire place. Oh, God. Why? Oh, God. First off, you're contradicting yourself because he's like, yeah, everyone's pretty much gone because of the season. And now

he's saying that there's children? It's probably one of the random evil children across the lake. Well, I don't want their gifts, so I'm going to burn it. Don't burn the artifact, dude. Rule one. I think we can establish that with all the stuff that we've read and everything so far. If you ever find something like this, I would say just don't even touch it, don't mess with it. like rule one right well look all i'm saying is every forest that i know every self-respecting forest has the pagan child right that runs through the forest and leaves up yeah and and i i suppose burning their gifts is a you know an appropriate response i always just kept them just like put them

up in my house i thought they were cool but i don't know that's just me and that's because and you know what? Even if you did do that, I think that the pagan evil baby children would respect that more. If they find out that you burnt it, it is going to be hell to pay. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. I would say also in general, what would you do if you were in this scenario? Would you not burn? Oh, dude, I wouldn't touch it. Would you just leave? I would be, uh, I've always, I thought about this. If anything paranormal happens, I'm going to be scared, right? I'm going to be like, oh my God. Like if there's like a ghost, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, God. like quivering like that.

But I'm going to pretend that I don't even know, like, oh, just reading my book. Doesn't matter. Everything's normal here. I wouldn't even, I would act like I don't even see it. Hmm,

this is just ran. Okay, my door handle looks more decorative. I wouldn't even acknowledge it. Honestly, that's what I would do. I would be so scared. Or honest,

I would probably leave to be, like, there would be no way that I could justify that somebody made something with bones, twigs and twine. first off it's like where did you find the twigs and twine yes you can find the branches places but to even go to the store and purchase twine i don't know that person and i don't i i would have to be completely disconnected with it we got we got to keep continuing let's put it let's put it this way let's put this way right let's

let's take a step back and kind of observe the story so far this person's a grad student we'll call him gregg gregg is a grad student right so he's like he's going through school probably doesn't have that much money. Maybe, like, not really a strained relationship with his mom, but not enough that his mom's willing to talk about her father, right? So, he's probably not that well off. And then he suddenly gifted a house that he could probably sell for like a quarter million, right? Countryside, nice house, stuff like that. Oh, dude. So he can't just walk away from that, right? He has to do something. Absolutely can. I want to go on a live and say, I, yeah, I, here's something to. And I, we're getting too far off the story, but I want to say this.

If I, if a family member, a grandpa of mine that I've never met and has no relationship to me whatsoever gave me property and it's free money. And I'm like, hey, I, where do I sign to sell this is what I would say immediately. I have no personal ties to this, right? And also to assume that you're a grad student and you want to live in the middle of nowhere on a lake? Are you kidding me? Yeah. Right, dude. That's all I got to say.

okay well i'm gonna be sympathetic for at least at he hasn't lost me at this moment at this he's lost you to you he's he's chum he's shark bait who cares but he's shark bait windegoon because here's the er is here's the thing idea is on your you're like hey it's a really beautiful out here and then you come back let's just say it's the third day you've been there and there is a blare witch project artifact on your door it's not like hey i've lived here for a year i'm settled, right? That's a different story. That's a totally different story. He's so, Greg is so new to this, it's unbelievable. Unbelievable. And then he burns it. He's a dunce. He's a goon. I don't respect Greg already. We got to continue. I'm sorry,

we're listening. That's all I got. I have nothing, I have nothing but hate in my heart. Okay. Well, now, now out of necessity, I have to be a Greg defender. that's fine because if we both hate him this is just going to be mean so I've got to come to his hate you have to wear that cross I have to bear that cross yeah okay

so the guy who rightfully so burned the pagan artifact says right by the next morning I'd pretty much forgotten about it okay he's lost me after that sentence he's lost me what do you mean you forgot about it

well by the next morning I didn't think about the children making demonic triangles and putting him on my door No, no, I can't. I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do it. I have to stay on his train. I'm Greg Defender. I would forget about it too, I guess. All right. But the next morning, I'd pretty much forgotten about it. And honestly, I had too much on my plate at the moment to worry about some kids' prank. So I got up that morning, made some breakfast, and went out on the deck with some coffee. I was sitting there drinking my coffee when I noticed something hanging in a tree just over the railing. It was another one of those artifacts. Oh God It was just like the last one But it had a rock tied to it instead of a bone

Oh good God They're consciously different And now it's it's It's just another It's the same kind of triangle Except in the middle of the bottom twig There's just a rock Is all I wanted to say

But they're just the exact same size and everything Right And then almost immediately I saw another one In a tree further down by the ground I went down the deck steps to retrieve it and then I started seeing even more of them. I found about eight in total hanging in trees all around the house.

And we have various images of these little stick effigies with rocks tied into them. I found about eight in total is crazy. It's insane. Even if it's one guy to consciously make

10 of these artifacts in total is, it's blowing my mind. Yeah. It's kind of weird. People kind of just dropping this around my... Someone's a bit strange. We got a bit of an artist and craftsman guy who lives around here, okay? They all had different objects tied to them.

Bones, feathers, that sort of thing. It was definitely weird, but I was more annoyed than anything, thinking that someone was in my yard decorating the trees with these ugly goth Christmas ornaments. Also, if someone was trying to scare me, it was going to take more than some bullshit art and crafts project to do the trick. I gathered all the artifacts together

and burned them like the first one. I'm sure that's a good decision. After I disposed of all the stick things, I took a shower, got dressed, and went back outside to do some basic tidying and whatnot. The deck in the yard are sort of overgrown, and leaves are starting to fall and cover everything. Being a new homeowner is a lot of work, turns out.

That was when I found something that actually did make me nervous. I was raking a corner of the yard when I saw something dark on the ground off in the trees I couldn't tell what it was from afar so I went to investigate at first I thought it was a blanket but when I got closer

it looked like a big sweatshirt or a hoodie or something I didn't want to touch it but it was obviously clothing of some kind oh god nope no no no no no no no no no no no no nope nope nope nope nope nope no what you're afraid of a little

navy sweatshirt chariot line on the ground. Well, there's all these demonic, uh, well, hold on, like pagan god artifacts and it's going to take a lot more to scare me here. And it's just like, oh, a random child sweatshirt on the ground in my yard. That's kind of weird. There's a lot of questions I have.

I do like this buildup though so far. I will, I will say, uh, it is a bit strange to me that if he, if he is operated under the assumption that kids are playing a prank on it, which is reasonable, right? I remember my grandfather, his house that he used to live in, our family's still owned, and it was like completely run down, like ceiling, falling through and stuff. So we went to go check it out. And it turns out a bunch of kids were using it for like a hangout spot. Like there's, you know, beer cans in the floor and stuff like that. Because it was like, it was a pretty big old, like, opulent looking house that's now just abandoned on some back road. And while we were walking around in there, a bunch of people had like drawn like 666 on the wall and like scary faces and stuff like that.

So I get to some degree You inherit an abandoned house And now there's these little creepy twigs Hanging up around the place But if you are operating under that assumption Why then does a shirt freak you out Because you would assume the people who are leaving this stuff up Wear clothes, right?

So maybe someone left a jacket on the ground Like Well there's a question I have too here as well Is he saying that the first time he's been at this place He's like oh I'm finding these weird artifacts around Or I thought that he was like Oh I live here And I woke up on

day and oh there was a weird artifact on the door and around my house are we to assume that the first day he's showing up he's like oh it's a nice property but when i inspected the house these things are here i think i think that's what the fray well he says he went back he went out to town and he comes back and the stick things there yeah so it implies that it was between the time of him first getting there and him coming back the next morning he finds a stick thing there now hold on this could also imply maybe he just didn't notice it the first day, the one on the door, and the others were hung up in the trees around, or if this is a place kids are still making pranks on, like, they don't,

if the house still looks overgrown, maybe they don't know someone's moved in yet. My point is, I can almost rationalize, because I'm trying to be a Greg Defender. I can almost rationalize getting over the stick things, but I don't know then why the sweatshirt would freak you out, is all I'm saying. Yeah, no, I think that's fair. I think, um, hmm, it's interesting. I don't know also just clothes being abandoned like someone just like

took something off or left something is always just kind of odd but let's just yeah I guess just keep rolling yeah we'll continue after that he says I looked around and realized it was a whole encampment oh okay well that kind of explains why he'd be freaked out but I said sure okay I walk it back I walk it back this would be freaky there were a couple of old socks

a pair of what I think was underwear gross a few old napkins scattered around a plastic spoon and creepy of all, a beat-up notebook, to which we have pictures of all of those things lying in the dirt. I flipped open the notebook, but nothing was written inside. A whole bunch of pages had been ripped out of it, so I know someone had been using it. Plus, you could sort of see the shadow of pinmarks on the most recent page. I couldn't make out what had been written, though. Anyway, that definitely freaked me out. It was clear someone was camping out on my property

and possibly trying to scare me out of the house. I wasn't really sure what to do about it. it though what could i do definitely didn't sleep well that night that was the day before yesterday the next morning i sort of expected more weird artifacts to be outside but i didn't see anything and the encampment was gone so i figured it was probably a homeless person passing through or something and with that we have the end of the first thread yeah the end of october 29th thread which is uh pretty i mean pretty alarming first day so basically what just to go back he found artifacts closed kind of encampment a journal that looked like somebody was had been writing in it but the pages have been torn out and he's thinking that people are basically pulling a prank on him

yes yeah or like it's a homeless guy who was just like hanging out near an old abandoned house which again makes sense uh like i said that house that my grandfather's house we went and checked out we saw signs that look like some guy was living in there for a while like you know food and like a cot he made in the corner um right like i mean so like you know people need a place to stay they go somewhere that's got an old abandoned house makes sense um but it would be enough to make me freaked out i wouldn't immediately jump to supernatural conclusions basically yeah no not yet and it looks like the next thread starts on october 31st 2018 the the next main thread does but if you scroll up a bit in between there's some quick replies

he gives to the events that just happened oh okay okay i see here okay what the October, the, I called the cops and explained what happened. Yeah, yeah, yeah, stuff like that. Or like, if you look down, so if you go, are you on the main thread right now? So, like, the one right above the picture of the notebook where it says, anyway, that definitely freaks me out. Yeah, yeah. You can take those if you want. Sure, yeah, I'll do those.

Looks like he says, anyway, that definitely freaked me out. It was clear someone was camping out of my property and possibly trying to scare me out of the house. I wasn't really sure what to do about it, though. What could I do? didn't sleep well that night and it says also here on october 29th that was the day before yesterday the next morning i sort of expected some weird artifacts to be outside but didn't see anything and the encampment was gone so i figured it was probably a homeless person passing through or something oh my god wait did you just read that right is that the same that might be the segment

which is just crazy i just want to say too it's insane that he said uh it's crazy that he said uh that that apparently the that the things were gone like someone definitely collected them i don't know he says here uh on uh 953 p m the same day october 29th he says the driveway ends a ends a way up uh a ways up from the house and then you have to trek you have to trek you have to trek down a path which bends around the side of the house to get in i was walking around the house when i saw some movement across the yard near a tree i froze dead in my tracks so he's starting to see movement out there now yeah he's starting to see some kind of crazy movement down here and he looks like he's

oh my god that video sorry I'm looking at another deal here there's a whole oh there's a whole another deal here sorry I'm like it's weird navigating around these threads my bad yeah yeah so it is weird navigating around these threads all right hold on go to so that's still all October 29th

okay I see how so go to that thread you were clicking on that has this video the one that says I ran back around the house and got inside go to that one and then scroll up to I thought this day before yesterday I thought this was the end

okay so I see how this is it's all one giant threat Caitlin I'm sorry for all this stuff you have to cut it's all one giant thread if you go to click on that thread then scroll up it's the tweet that says someone was standing

under a tree staring at my house It's right after that tweet you just read that says the driveway ends the ways up from the house. Okay, I see here. So someone was standing under a tree standing on the house. So actually, start with the tweet you just did because that's all in the same train of thought. I saw someone. I freaked out. Okay, Caitlin, cut what we just read and start here.

Apologies. Yeah, I'll do a little clock test too, so hopefully that she can see the audio spike. So it looks like there was a response to the thread on October 29th that says, the driveway ends up from a... The driveway ends a ways up from the house. and then you have to trek down a path which bends around the side of the house to get in. I was walking around the house when I saw some movement across the yard, across the yard near a tree.

I froze dead in my tracks. Someone was standing under a tree staring at my house. They didn't see me though, since I was also partly behind some trees and a good distance away. Whoever it was, they were wearing the same dark hoodie I'd seen in the grass the day before. As quietly as I could, I set down my shopping bags next to me and slipped to my phone out. of my pocket. I managed to take a couple photos, but the person turned and disappeared into the woods.

Here in the image, you zoom in, you can see who that person is, which looks like a lovely little fellow. I don't, I don't care for this man. I don't care for this man. It's Voldemort. Yeah, so for audio listeners, it's basically like, they kind of have, like, clean features, like no facial hair or anything, kind of feminine looking in the face almost but it's hard to tell because they're wearing like an oversized hoodie with the hood down

and they're just standing in the trees and then it has a moment where it's just standing and then it quickly looks at the uh the care gregg and then gregg's like oh oh you're you're down at the video oh shit i'm on the wrong one i'm on the wrong one sorry we're not there yet that's coming to just a second okay so okay okay sorry k k i'm so sorry kate i'm so sorry k him standing like a dark Especially broad daylight, mind you. Yeah. It's crazy. It's great.

Oh, God. Imagine, wait, okay. So, I will say the sweatshirt the guy is wearing is not the same as the one that was on the ground. You don't think so? I will say that. I don't think so, because the one on the ground looked like it was blue. This is definitely like a black. Yeah, it could kind of be dark in the trees, I guess.

But yeah, maybe. Oh, so you think it is his. I think it could be the same one. Yeah, just a shadow of it and stuff. Because it makes sense. If that was the person standing outside, they picked up a hoodie that they left on the ground, and now they're wearing it standing out in the trees. Sure, sure.

I mean, I agree. I just didn't know. I didn't... I'm assuming there might be more, is what I was trying to say. Oh, that's a good point. It could be. Very well, it could be. I don't know.

I honestly do not remember enough details about the story to know if that's correct or not. So you could be right. As always, I am lost. I am deeply, deeply lost. Well, don't worry. Don't worry. I'll make it worse in just a moment. So, with the next tweet, he says, I stood there for a couple minutes too nervous to move in case the person came back. But they didn't, so I picked up my bags and hurried inside.

I picked up the phone to call the cops, but put it back down because I didn't even know what I tell them. Someone was looking at my house, like any police officer would take me seriously. And like an idiot, I destroyed all the weird artifacts from before, so there wouldn't even be any evidence Oh God, Greg That's what I'm saying Why? Why would your first thing be like I'm just gonna burn it?

You know what it's just it's uh Burning burning's a bit extreme I can see throwing away Perhaps setting inside Throwing away or even just throwing on the ground Being like okay Like if they're hanging on the burning The burning seems a bit much

Yeah It's insane like I'm going to start a fire And burn them I absolutely Hate these Oh I do not like these Um So

Yeah yeah yeah So after that I was mad at myself And feeling scared All alone in the house So I locked all the doors And left out the back I went down to the lake

Because I didn't know where else to go I just know I didn't want to be in the house At that moment I walked a ways down to the lake I walked a ways down to the lake shore Then set for a while looking out at the water I thought about getting in my car And just going home

But I felt like that would get me in trouble there's all sorts of property tax stuff i don't understand i felt trapped okay you can you can leave you can you can leave the house and still pay property taxes if that's your issue yeah right are you are you know what though if anything if anything it's like uh he he is predominantly young right like a yeah college grad so he could be like i mean i don't know what's going I mean, I guess, do the property tax, am I allowed to leave if I owe money on the plane? That feels outlandishly stupid to me. That feels like, what are you talking about?

I felt like that would be, give me in trouble. There's all sorts of property tax stuff. I don't understand. I felt trapped. Okay, Greg. Sure, Greg, whatever you say. Sure, Greg. It is getting across the idea that Greg's kind of dumb.

Yeah, well, he's burnt pagan artifacts, and now he feels he can't leave his house because he owes property. Okay, a lot of dumb. Not kind of dumb. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm okay with the hymbo protagonist from time to time. Just a fool in a dangerous situation. Oh, God. All right, so after that, he says,

Also, I couldn't decide if I was actually in any danger. When my grandpa died, it took me a couple months to actually get up to the house, so maybe someone was squatting in the empty house. Now that I'm here, they might just leave on their own accord. I was starting to get dark so I reluctantly headed back to the house I walked up the stairs leading to the back of my house but right before going inside

I got this weird chill I made up my mind that I absolutely did not want to stay in that house overnight I decided to go get my car and drive into town to find a motel for the night this is the first smart decision he's made by the way I was calling my accountant

and I made the decision to go to the motel because the property tax issue was not an issue after all. Yeah, it turns out I won't get arrested for not being in a house for a night. Yeah, he pulls up the driveway and there's like cops waiting for him. Where are you going, Greg? You think you could just leave at a property you pay taxes for? Sorry, I'll go back.

Tell it to the judge. Get in the car. Tell it to the judge, Greg. The house was all locked up and I already had my keys, so I went back around the house and toward the path that led to the driveway. And that's when I saw her. the figure from before standing right in the middle of my front lawn staring straight at my house i froze in place completely in shock i was practically right next to her but it was almost as if she didn't see me then it hit me she couldn't see me because she had no eyes she has no eyes

just shiny skin over where her eyes should be and she had almost no hair at all I wanted to run, but I felt like if I moved even a little, she'd hear me. As quietly as I could, I went for my phone. I needed some sort of evidence to show the cops. It all felt like it was happening in slow motion. I feel sick to my stomach as I'm writing this, but I was able to get it on video. My heart is racing, just thinking about this. I haven't been able to watch it since I recorded it, but here it is.

Then we have the video, which is very, if I may say. Very well done for what this story's doing so far, right? Like, for those who aren't able to watch, we have this figure from before with the hood down, like, appears to be a woman, but their skin grown over where the eyes should be. And it's facing straight ahead and then suddenly turns towards Greg, and then Greg flips out, like, moves the camera and runs away. It's just uncanny enough, too, to be realistic.

Like, something where it's later at night. I also want to say that the idea of a horror element or horror story of, hey, I inherited this house that's been kind of abandoned, and now you're feuding with a squatter, like a homeless squatter, is terrifying. Yeah. Like that with it, it's like somebody who's like, no, this is, like, some kind of weird territorial issue with somebody who's probably, probably mentally unwell, like, you know, homeless, whatever.

That within itself drives you up the wall, but then to add this little bit of uncanny element of like the eyes that are kind of sheened over, which also you could debate, which the video, even in the video, it's hard to see it's kind of night, but it's the description they give of no eyes, light hair, and it's just staring at the house. And now all I'm wondering is what is inside the house that this person is so fixated by? Yeah. Yeah.

And also, like, for just like a Twitter ARG, the effect of the skin over the eyes is very well done. Like, again, usually we, it's complimented by the darkness, the night and everything, of course. But it does give the impression of, it's like burn marks over their eyes. It looks really good. I was going to say that too, almost like a burn victim of some kind. Like, yeah, I was going to say. And I will say that I'm usually not a fan of whenever it's like, oh, they don't have eyes. Like, you see that so much in horror stories and like even like cryptid stuff of like they don't

have eyes but they do this i think this is a really effective way of doing that like i'm really i'm bought in right now yeah yeah i think it's really cool so after that video gregg continues and says i ran back around the house and got inside i scrambled upstairs and looked out my bedroom window at the front yard she had vanished remembering it now it feels like it didn't really happen like it was a nightmare or something i called the cops and explained what had happened i'm sure i sounded crazy but they said they'd send someone by in the morning and to keep my doors locked so that's where I am now. Alone in the woods freaking out. I know

I won't be able to sleep tonight. I feel lightheaded and nauseous. I don't know what's going to happen. I'm scared chitless. And with good reason. Interesting. This later half is written really well. Very believable. Like, very, it's very believable of someone just being like, I'm horrified.

I don't know what to... It's almost like they're dumping all of their thoughts and the, like, the encounters they had into just social media. As if also, it's believable that you would put this on social media so people would be like dude you're freaking out like it's fine you know and you can like get reassurance from people yeah but man with that video and like some of this other stuff happening i feel like it would be the worst idea as well because i feel like people would be

like you need to run you need to like you're in danger call go you know ask for help do whatever you can because it's it's insane yep yep it absolutely is uh and that was all and that's all october 29th that's all that's all that's all that's all that document of that day, correct? Yes, yes, that's all from the first series of reports. Yeah, it started with something weird's happening in the woods in my house. Hey, everyone, we wanted to take a quick break to think today's sponsor, which is HelloFresh. Whether you're trying to save money, eat better, live a stress-free life,

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two days 26 we get the next thread it's that the past couple days right yes yes okay so now we're on Halloween day. It's been two days now, and this is his first update since then. Yep. So next we have, again, on Halloween, he says, The past couple days have been really strange. Also I have shitty reception up here, so I'm sorry for not updating. They sent a police officer up yesterday morning, but I feel like it didn't accomplish anything. I explained everything to the cop and even took him out to the clearing where I found the stuff, but it was all gone except for the notebook. And since the notebook is empty, it was basically useless.

I feel like the cop didn't believe me anyway I showed him the photos I took up the stick things And he said at worst it counted as vandalism But without physical evidence of trespassing They couldn't do anything Even when I showed him the video He still acted really skeptical Hey officer here's the no-eyed lady

In my yard Can you go arrest her? What's weird? I mean I would be probably doing the same thing Imagine showing somebody like Dude check this was outside my house And the guy's like yeah Yeah, okay.

Yeah, I listen to Creepcast. I know what this is. It's one of those ARGs, isn't it? Yeah, this is one of those AERG. Okay, good luck, sir. He kept asking if I knew the person in the video. I think he thought I was pranking him or something. I ended up just getting frustrated.

The cops said to call the station if something happened. After he left, I went back and got the notebook from the clearing. Maybe there's a way to figure out what was written on the last page? I don't know. Anyway, the cop drove away and I was alone again. It's so damn quiet up here. All I want to do is leave, but I feel like I can't. I'm so far away from home that I can't even invite a friend up here to keep me company, and even if someone did come, it would take them a couple days. I haven't seen the woman from before, but I feel like she's still out there. And other weird things are happening too. I took a walk around the lake yesterday because I wanted to get a look at the

house, to get a look at the other houses in the area, maybe see if someone else has noticed anything weird. But they're all empty. Every house is totally dark and there are no cars in any of the driveways. I haven't seen a single person at all except once. Well, sort of. After I came back from my walk, I was out on the deck and saw a boat in the water, way off in the distance. They weren't moving. They stayed there all afternoon. I feel like they were they were watching me. Oh, we have visual too. Yeah.

For our audio listeners, it's a, it's a, I love this. I love this, dude. Yeah, it's good. The photo is so good. It's like a big, wide open lake, and there's just like a very small boat with two figures. It's like, you can't identify. Even if you zoomed in on it, it'd be pixelated.

Yeah. But it's just, it's very unsettling. Also, the idea, too, that he walks around, like Greg's been walking around. He's like, yeah, all of these houses are totally empty. No one is here. No one at all. is is horrifying which also i don't know about you i'm being a little presumptuous too but with how disregarding the officer was i don't know man i think there's some kind of i i feel like they're in on

it as well especially after the boroska incident i can't trust the cops in these stories but especially if there's nobody else around and then you're like hey someone is here and i have video proof and they're like yeah i mean if something weird happens just call us that feels bit suspicious. Yeah, it's a bit strange, admittedly. I'll also make the note that it's funny, you're still traumatized from Barasca. That makes me happy. Everybody is, do you? Yeah, yeah. Anytime someone, every time someone, like, reacts to something, they're just like, well, at least it's no Barasca. I saw a bunch of tweets that were like, if I ever think my friends are bad, I'll just remember they didn't traumatize me like Isaiah did to Hunter.

I know, dude. It's bullshit. Yeah. Never, never forgive you for that. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. I wouldn't change anything, though.

I'm glad it happened, but that's fair. So after the picture of the boat, Greg says, they actually stayed out there in the same place until it got too dark to see them anymore. Normally, I think they were just fishing if it weren't for what happened the day before. And the fact that all these houses seemed empty, where did they come? from the boat was gone this morning so who knows i microwave some oatmeal for breakfast and took it down to the dock near the water it's weird but i sort of feel safer down there the water makes me feel less stressed i guess i kind of feel like time goes by faster when i'm by the lake it's like meditative

or whatever anyway i was actually starting to feel a little better about everything this morning if it wasn't for what happened next i'd finished my oatmeal and i was staring and i was starting back towards the house when I noticed something in the water. It was in this little inlet by the shore. It was small and white. And at first, I thought it was a brightly colored rock, but I wasn't sure. It seemed too round. So again, there's an image.

We see a small little white dot in what looks like, you know, an inlet of a lake. Yeah, it's a very, it's just a picture as if someone's like sitting by water and they're pointing their phone down. And it almost looks like a white marble, a pearl, or even like maybe. like a fishing bob kind of tucked away in the rocks maybe yep and then he continues and says probably against my better judgment i took off my shoes and went into the water to retrieve it it was an eyeball an eyeball oh god and then we have an image of him holding a human eye in his hand it's a human eyeball in the hand but it has like a cataract over it like it's definitely like almost like an old person's eye or it could have been because it's in the water but bro

literally just picked up an eyeball and posed with it to take a picture in his hand. I don't, Greg, you are, your character. I will say, as a slight nitpick is someone who's seen a lot of pictures of dead bodies. Which I don't know if that's a good thing or not.

But the, that's not how eyes look when they're decomposing. They just get kind of white and like jelly looking. And also, that eyeball is like red so whoever had this had like red or pink eyes like albino eyes um yeah

I mean there's still a lot of blood in it and stuff I mean to be completely transparent it kind of looks like like a like a ping pong ball yeah like a toy like a toy eyeball I'm just I'm being a jerk because it's a very cool step for the story I'm just we're pedantic but it's just it's all about immersive right now

it's the immersion right now especially with how good the woman standing there and then quickly yeah that that that that more than mix up for it. It's very well done. Very creepy. Yeah. Yeah. So just a little note, you know, show it on the screen. Correct. It's like a little, yeah, a little toy. This has to be from an animal, right? Please tell me this is from a big fish or something. I throw it back in the water and hustled back up to the house. I wash my... Why? Why? Stop. Yeah, yeah. If he's trying to keep evidence... Yeah. You find an eyeball. Yeah. You find an eyeball in the water and you're like, okay. Well, I'll just throw it back on my... Call the cop. I mean, like... It said the weird happened. If it was like... If it was like... like he thought like if he was like oh this is definitely like an animal's eye

like a deer or fish or whatever then sure but I mean like he doesn't think it is I don't think and yeah yeah yeah I keep the eyeball a perfectly a perfectly preserved one single eyeball right there

sure let's just let's say he thinks it's an animal right I mean he says it there it has to be an animal right whatever from big fish so he's like whatever throws it back sure He continues as I washed my hands in the sink and then set on the couch for a long time

I don't know what's going on I can't believe I picked that up out of the water I feel gross And to make matters worse That boat's back out there It showed up again this afternoon And it's just setting there In the same place as yesterday

Are they watching me from the boat And that's the end of the initial thread From October 31st here it looks like And the What's interesting is now we have two accounts of people staring and looking at the house. We don't know if it's directly at him, but I have a feeling that we are going to find out

that something in the house is obviously grabbing these people to want to, I'm assuming, they're fixated on something. I don't know. Like, I think we haven't heard the end of Greg's grandpa. I'm still wondering where that ties into this as well. Yep. Yep.

It's, I assure you it gets worse. I know that much. I have a feeling it does It gets more terrified as it goes on So the next thread begins with I keep hearing things at night Beginning with the November 6th thread Greg says

I keep hearing things at night I stand out on the deck And I feel like I can hear things moving through the trees It's probably just a deer or something But I can't help imagining it's something else I'm sure I'm making it out to be worse than it is Are deer nocturnal I see them out on the road sometimes

when I'm driving into town. I try not to think about it. But last night, it was worse. I heard screams? That sounds so stupid to say, but I don't know what else to call it. I was brushing my teeth and heard something out the bathroom window. I'm sure it was an animal, but my toothbrush was buzzing, so I can't be sure. And then this morning, I found the bloody remains of something right in the middle of my yard.

It was literal intestines, and they were fresh. I feel like I can't even post something like that to Twitter. Like, is it going to get flagged if I post it? I don't know what to do. Maybe I can upload it separately and share the link or something. Fair warning, this is pretty gross, so don't look at it if you're squeamish. I'm sure it's an animal, but what did this? And why was it left right in the front of my house?

Then there's an attached link for... Ah, the image is gone now. Dang, that sucks. Okay, maybe I... I could search and find it later, but it looks like for the moment it's lost media. That is tragic. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder, do you think it was ever there or do you think that he uploaded it and it's like a missing piece of media? Like even there got. Oh, that's a good point. Like maybe there never was an image. Maybe it was always just like redacted. Yeah. It could be. Barberwell could be. If we don't put anything else. If we don't put anything up, assume we were right. So. Yeah. All right. So onto the next one. Yeah. Sorry, it's disgusting. Anyway, I scooped it up with the shovel and flung them into the woods away from the house. I don't know if bears are up here, but I couldn't leave it.

And besides, animal guts are the least of my worries right now. I have other things on my mind. I've been trying to figure out what's written in this notebook from the woods. I've had it for a couple days, and I can see faint letters, but I can't make them out. A bunch of people replied and told me to do a pencil or charcoal rubbing, but I didn't have anything like that. I found a bunch of pins, but no pencils, so I had to go back in number. of town. It was actually really hard to find charcoal. I finally had some luck at this little hardware store. The box didn't even have a price tag on it, so I feel like it had been sitting

on the shelf for years. It seems like people in town are starting to recognize me. I don't like it. I didn't plan to be here that long, but it looks like I might not have a choice. People are nice enough, but it seems like the kind of town where everyone knows everyone, and I definitely don't belong. When I was in the hardware store, these little kids were following me around, giggling and making fun of me. I think they were twins. I couldn't really hear what they were saying, but I'm sure they were making fun of me because

little kids are jerks. For one, if you're being haunted by like creepy twins in a small town, you should probably leave. If you've been, yeah, if you're sitting there and you've had all these things happen and in any capacity, there's little twins that are following me around, poking and prodding you in a store. Not a good sign. Never a good sign.

Get out. Absolutely not. Twins are already an anomaly. So it's just like, it's just another negative on top of a negative. Yep. Absolutely not. On the way out of town, I stopped at the grocery store, but they were out of some of the things I wanted. It seems like they're always out of stuff.

They've been out of eggs for a couple days, so I just got some Pop-Tarts and stuff and left. Anyway, the notebook. I've actually been putting it off for most of the afternoon because I wasn't sure I wanted to find out what the woman was riding in it. I can't ignore it forever I'm going to eat dinner and then I guess I'll try the charcoal be back in a bit God

so I did a charcoal rubbing over the most recent page in the book like people were telling me to I'm not sure what I was expecting but it wasn't this I'm sort of freaking out and then would you like to read what the notebook says

yeah the image here is trying to make out what the image is I'm trying to see it says let me see here it looks like it's just saying they took my eyes basically it looks like she is just repeating over and over again

they took my eyes correct yep over and over and over again on the paper if you zoom in yeah it says they took my eyes they took my eyes they took my eyes they took my eyes they took my eyes it's very

horrific you know I don't know any other way to say it I am upset that I had to read like this the page the way the way too with the charcoal is just fairly dirty like it's a very cool way to reveal this message because it just looks like

I don't know kind of like ash or something like the page is kind of burnt so it's like this cryptic burnt message just like coming out of this paper and the woman was as like very hard especially to get those imprints on the next page the person has a write kind of heavy

so it's this person that just kind of right they took my eyes over and over again yep definitely a pleasant thought and Greg just ends the thread here just says what even is this what the fuck I feel like I'm going to throw up I need to go sit down

what the hell is going on well gregg let me tell you what's going on you're in you're in shit water you're in deep buddy there's no there's no ifs ands or butts about it sorry to be the inquisitive little man here but let me tell you gregg this is not a typical and normal thing going on what the heck is happening well gregg you're being fucking haunted i don't know what's this all right you're you're you're in you're up shit creek for sure right now i feel bad for Greg. I feel bad for Greg, but at the same time, I don't, like, you should have left the first day, dude.

The first little sign. You know what I mean? Yeah, as soon as realistically, as soon as that effigy was on his doorknob, he should have been like, well, I'm staying at a motel 8 tonight. Yeah, that would have solved all of this. As soon as a pagan artifact is found and Greg's like, well, what the heck is, what the heck is

exactly is all this stuff? How did this get here? Yeah. All right, well, I guess I'll make a fire and burn all of it. Should probably burn this thing. I don't understand. Well, I don't understand it, so I'm going to burn it. That makes the most sense to me. And that's the end of that threat on November 6, I believe.

We don't pick back up until November 9th, so it's been three days. So it seems like the standard for these updates has been basically every couple days. He kind of seems to update some stuff. Yeah, yeah. The next one begins with I called my mom yesterday. Yeah. So, on November the 9th. 9th, he says, I called my mom yesterday. I wanted to see if she knew anything about this place.

She said, I've actually been here before when I was really young. I don't remember any of that. I tried to ask her again why she never got along with my grandfather, but she's so cagey about it. She grew up in a town nearby, and my grandfather didn't move into this house until after my mom left her school. I guess she never really came back. I want to say, too, that that's a really interesting little plug-in. I just want to say, just that, uh, I love the line of you know um she said i've actually been there before uh when i was really young i don't remember any of that and then you kind of follow that up immediately with like uh she was really cagey about talking about her dad yeah seems like some kind of weird like hey grandpa might be a satanist

grandpa might be yeah you know what it actually i don't this isn't where the story's going but it reminds me almost of like an abuse scenario you know a little bit sure yeah like oh you've been there before but i don't you don't need to talk about grandpa yeah sure Yeah, some kind of crazy dark thing happened And your mind just tries to bury it How wild would it be to be in a house And then you're like, oh, you've been here before And you have zero memory of it?

Oh, that's, oh, it's creepy My own real life. I remember I visited one of my grandparents one time And my grandpa was, or my dad was like, Yeah, you came here when you were three And it's like, oh, what? It's already kind of like, it's disturbing in its own right. Not that it's like, you know, anything,

tragic but it's just one of those things where it's like oh really i've been to this i can't i don't know it's it feels weird that your brain isn't doing its job right that it's not putting together the pieces the weird the own mind betrayed you the weirdest what i ever had that when i was like five years old so like we lived right down the street from like my grandparents my dad's uh mom and uh dad so i would like like as a baby a toddler and stuff like that they would like watch over me while my parents were at work i spent like the first years of my life with them and then one day for seemingly no reason at all i was like four or five my parents take me over there it had been maybe a week since i seen my grandparents and i looked at them and didn't know who they were and got

scared and ran away that is like i had seen them a week ago but for some reason my brain had just started collecting data of what people look like and who people were so So when my dad's like, you're going to be staying with Mamo for a couple hours. I bolted. I ran away. I was like, I've never met these people before. And it was sad because I go back to my grandparents and my grandpa's like, you don't remember me? Yeah, I was going to say, if I was your grandparent, I'm not going to lie, I'd be really pissed.

I'm like, okay, dude, fuck this kid. My grandpa. Does it remember me? Come on. Yeah, my grandpa was like, oh, you don't remember me? And then he, like, turned on dragon tails or something. He gave me a root beer. And I was like, okay.

All right, yo. All right, yo. Old man's pretty chill. Yeah, you're cool. You're cool. Why he chill like that? Yeah, I take it back. But yeah, it's weird. It's like all of a sudden my brain's like, oh, I should start remembering what faces look like. And it weirds me out to think about, but yeah, strange encounter. So, I guess you never came back. We talked for a little bit, but my reception here is spotty. She asked me if there's still wine in the cellar, and I told her there wasn't a cellar, but she said there is. down in the basement off to a corner

after she hung up I went downstairs to look and she was right there's a bunch of old antique stuff in the basement and behind some filing cabinets there's a dusty little wine cellar I can't believe I missed it at first it's full of wine and some of it is really old

then we have various pictures of an old dusty wine cellar we have a barrel of something yeah it's like a crest yeah there's like a crest with like a bird what is that a bird and a rod rabbit it looks like or something yeah creepy old and then the next thread he shows like some old wine uh topers basically that look more haunting than anything i've seen in my whole life

weird little baby man with a top hat and all kind of like a weird dying beagle or something it's got like carved faces and stuff like that yeah yeah these are the kind of things my wife would collect and put around the house yeah and then uh the next thread here the next picture he's showing is basically a dead rat and he's like looks like no one's been down here in a while

it's like yeah Greg yeah it's a mummified mouth basically yeah it's a dead rat that's a pretty dead rat that's a pretty dead rat

the thing's been down there a while yeah I mean he's right has been down there a while um after that he says and look at some of these bottles I don't know anything about wine

I wonder if they're good anyway at least I have a surplus of alcohol down here to take my mind off how weird things have been lately there is a bottle that's labeled 1864 1864 the other one's 1934 I mean like

obviously I'm not I don't know anything about I just know that that's probably extremely rare and extremely old so it's aging the basement even more I guess is what it's trying to do or the collection or these people This place has been here a while Yeah sure This house keeps surprising me

I keep finding weird shit around the property Like there's a collapsed shed in the backyard A little ways through the trees It's not that strange, I guess But I can't help overthinking everything I see now And we see like, again, a collapse shed Like what looks like old rusted barrels A window pane

What looks like the pieces of an old lawnmower, I think That's like been out in the weather for 30 years Right And then an old street sign that says Bermuda Yeah Is what I'm seeing here Yep So and then after I says

A little ways away from the shed I found this in the middle of a clearing what is this and we have a little Easter bunny looking thing that's like I mean at one point it was an Easter bunny

now it's like vines grown over it it looks decayed and like paint shipped and stuff like that but at one point it was like a little cute bunny decoration

yeah like almost like a yard numb looking thing my my wife opened the door oh oh ha

everyone after that heart attack it was going to be in the episode it's just Hunter I'm talking to now oh my gosh oh say hi Hunter hello that was very very funny all right sorry about that anyway gosh it sent me because she

I didn't hear anything then she throws the door open like it's time yeah Easter Bunny then it says none of it makes sense and there's something else I found that I can't stop thinking about. There's so much junk around the house, and I'm trying to clean it up, partly because it'll help this place sell faster, but also to keep my mind off

things. I was sorting through some debris and found these old rusty letters in a pile on the ground, partly under the foundation. I could see some nail holes on the side of the house, so I think they were on the house at one point. I know sometimes people give Lake House's names. I can't figure out what they might have said, though. I brought them inside and laid them all out on the kitchen floor to see if I could make sense of them. No luck so far. Maybe someone else can figure it out. Then we have... Super interesting, because the last photo here is... Yeah, it's just a series of letters. Just to quickly go through them, it's A-L-E-W-D-P-H-A-T-E-C-E-R-P-E. And they're all very rusty on basically kitchen tile flooring kind of thing. It's just a little snapshot of it.

and I just want to say based off of what I have had happened so far is that this you know I first naming a lakehouse okay I don't know what kind of delusion you're in dude I don't have you heard of that before yeah people nameing boats people do that around here they'll be they'll call it like a um

crow like the cranes landing or they'll say like the honey hole or the hideaway or something like that but normally that's like I haven't heard of like nailing letters to the side of the house, especially around Gatlinburg, that's super popular.

All the cabins will be named, like the Three Bears Nook or the, you know, the hideaway or something like that. So I guess, it's not totally unheard of, but. So if it's,

if it's, okay, so then it's in the realm of, it's in, it's in a real, like a, a realm that is, like,

a reality. It's, it's in reality. It's normally with like places you rent, like Airbnbs and stuff like that type thing. Like that I could see where it's like, oh, a coozy thing. We went there and it was called,

yeah, like the Bears' cavern. Yeah, yeah, yeah, stuff like that. This, though, with how rusty it is and everything else, I feel like it's going to spell something that's like not even ink, like Latin or something. What exactly is this? And he's going to look at it, and it's going to mean like the devil's horn out. Oh, God, oh God.

It spells out like, if don't go in the house, she'll die. Yeah, exactly. If you stay in the house, you will be killed. And he's like, look. Uh-oh, oh, geez. it looks like here too that that's the end of November 9th and then the next entry is it until November 21st yep yep the next this is a big this is a bigger jump here

yes yeah so it's what she addresses because on November 21st 2018 the first note he has says sorry for not updated in a while the reception up here is terrible and I haven't been able to get Twitter to load all that often at least there's lots of wine in the cellar so i haven't been too bored and that's the first thing he says as far as that goes so he's just it's just getting hammered yeah he's become slow becoming an alcoholic out there on the way yeah i mean i mean hairless eyeless women and dudes on boats watch

him yeah like a true i found someone's i found someone's entire spine and nervous system in my bush oh well i don't know at least i have wine uh so after that he says i've mostly been trying to keep busy getting the house in shape to sell. A realtor is supposed to come up here next week to help me formally listed, which is good because I'd like to get out of here. But there's something weird about the town down the road that I can't figure out.

I'd be getting cabin fever pretty bad, so the other day I drove into town to have breakfast, wander around a little bit to get my mind off things. And then he breaks this up weird, I think. Yeah. Yeah, it's right here. It does, and then it does, there's only one restaurant.

Yes, okay. So, yeah, the next thread he says, there's only one restaurant in the whole town from what I can tell. I went in there to eat, and the whole experience was sort of bizarre. I'm not really sure how to explain it. Anyway, I ordered the eggs Benedict off the menu.

The waitress had a pretty chilly attitude, but nothing out of the ordinary. But then she brought out my food. They totally forgot on the eggs on my eggs, Benedict. It was just ham and hollandays. I called the waitress back and told her, she forgot in my eggs, and all she said was, we don't have that. I asked how a downer could be out of eggs, especially early in the day.

She just said, sorry, and walked away. It was so weird. I was confused, so I took a second look at the menu. I realized the description doesn't actually list eggs in the Benedict, and then I realized eggs aren't listed anywhere on the menu, even in the sides. That is weird, yeah. I mean, there's a, he has pictures of a, uh, some menus here, And it's all very, it's like a standard basically diner menu, except there are no eggs at all.

Like in any of the dishes, like there's like a classic like lumberjack platter name thing. It says two pancakes, two bacon strips and two sauces served with potatoes and toast. It comes with butter and syrup. But usually, you know, as always, it'd be like eggs, whatever. So it's a bit odd. I'm getting hungry. No, I am too, dude. We're getting to dinner time.

I'm like, I love it. I love eggs. I love eggs. I love eggs so much. I need eggs. I will say, like, for this Twitter ARG, pretty cool of him to, like, make a menu, right? That looks like an actual menu. Yeah, how fun is that?

I love it. Yeah. Come on. Great stuff. And also remember earlier when he goes out to town, he said that the place he got groceries from was out of eggs. So. Yeah. Interesting.

It's a chicken cult. Chicken cult. Chicken cult called it. What kind of diner doesn't have eggs at all? That might make sense in a vegan restaurant or something, but, they have meat all over the menu. I can't figure it out. Also, on my way out, there was this family in a booth sort of watching me leave. They were all being really quiet in a sort of obvious way. They had two twin girls with them. I am definitely not coming back here. And again,

there's our second mention of twins. Mm-hmm. How weird, man. I was thinking about it the whole way home. There are too many things that don't make sense, and I don't feel any closer to figuring it out. But one thing seems clear. I'm not welcome here. But I just, can I, can I interrupt real quick? The twins thing. Yes. So it has the, the mom and the grand, grandpa, how do we know that the mom isn't the twin of the bald eyeless woman? It's very possible. Can I, I just want to throw that out there as a hypothesis. There was also, and to, and, and also just to say, when the, the fishermen were out there, it was two guys. That's also true. It was two people. You're right.

right i'm just saying i'm just saying it's an interesting perspective all right thank you so and to be honest i don't know if that's right or wrong because i don't think i ever finish this story because i don't remember how it is so even if you did know dude you'd better not tell me i would i would i would i would lie and say that whatever you said is interesting and cool and i'm proud of you so i like that that's your go-to lie with me absolutely yeah well after barraska have to compensate somehow so yeah yeah yeah you have to just pat me on the head and labrador me. When I got home, I found something folded up and wedged in my front door near the handle.

Someone clearly wants me gone. And it's a little folded note and it just says leave. Oh, God, dude. Good Lord. It was written... Go ahead. No, continue. No, I just saw that it was written on some sort of tag.

He's getting ready to say it. Yeah, it was written on the back of a tag of some sort. I suspect it was the eyeless woman from before I haven't seen her but I think she's still out there And then the tag If it's on the back of the tag of the shirt That was in the yard that he collected Probably is because it I'm gonna lose my mind

It looks like it's just a like Do not Wait actually no Clean and dry repair area thoroughly Cut patch larger than repair area Remove paper backing place patch over hole and press down firmly do not inflate for 30 minutes this is like a tire repair kit or something oh it says here someone in the comments here which gregg ends this thread by saying i think

something bad is coming i'm going to pop another ball of wine i don't know what else to do right now maybe don't get yourself into yeah maybe don't get hammered you need to be on your aid game right now get in your car and leave go anywhere god they said leave you should leave a person says uh nico doom on twitter says it's instructions for a patch kit for floaties and inflatables So maybe something down by the water Maybe it could be the people in the boat or something Maybe it could be Probably

The way they say that it makes me think that It's probably the people in the boat That maybe came ashore, wrote the note Like ripped it off their Maybe Their life vest or something Yeah Yeah that would be most likely

I think Um Hmm I don't know I mean the next one It looks like November 29th is the next one Yeah yeah Yeah, so we'll keep going with the story.

So now I'm thinking about it. Now I'm trying to remember specifics, but yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, so November. I saw something out in the woods today. Is that the next? Yes, that is the next part of the thread. Okay. Yeah, November 29th, 2018 at 7.16 p.m.

It says, I saw something out in the woods today. I love how simple that intro. Yeah, it's a good start. It's a good start. Because you know that people are like actively keeping up and waiting on new parts. and then they see that, and they're like, oh, yeah, here we go. Oh, Greg! Back in the fire.

I've been trying to not spend all my time at the house, since being cooped up all the time makes me feel crazy. Even though it might not be super safe to be out alone in the woods, it still feels better than being home all the time. God, I can't believe I just refer to that place as home. I've been here too long. Anyway, I was taking a walk today. These woods would be so pretty if I didn't feel like someone was going to,

to murder me out here i was almost enjoying myself when i stumbled into a clearing and found something strange there was a single filthy chair overlooking a ledge then the image we have here of this chair is it's it's not an outdoor chair kind of looks like an old classroom chair almost like a fold-up white chair i would just say it's it's like it's like an antique chair yeah it's definitely has some age to it like obviously it's been outside the elements obviously so it's kind of dirty but i would say it's not a standard chair that you'd be that you could just find at a store like it definitely looks like it has some age to it this also gives me like stairs in the woods flashbacks is like a structure outside that's not supposed to be there obviously not as extreme

as stairs but the same vibe sure just something where it's obviously someone placed it here to look at specifically something yeah yeah i agree it didn't seem that creepy at first but i got this funny feeling so i took up my phone and pulled up my maps app and sure enough the chair was pointed in the exact direction of my house. I was probably a mile away from the house at that point, but it was still weird. That's fun. That even though they can't see

the house from that chair, it's pointed towards it. That's eerie. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. It made me feel queasy, and I didn't want to stick around, so I hustled out of there, but I'd barely walked 30 feet when I found something else. Something way worse.

I don't even know how to describe it. What the hell is this? And then we have, it is a rock that has a carving into it in the shape of the stick effigies we've seen before. But this time at the center, we have some kind of animal skull with a vertebrae placed on top of it and seashells stacked around it. And there's a video below, and there's just like cockroaches crawling over it or some kind of bug. Yeah, it looks like a woodroach or like a woodloose type thing. Yeah. It's capture for it says, I took a video of it too.

It freaked me out, but I was mesmerized by it at the same time. I couldn't stop staring at it. I felt like I was in a daze. So now he's becoming almost transfixed by these things. I mean, if this isn't a sign that it's some kind of pagan cult or some kind of ritual is happening, it seems like it's almost like he is being prepped up for some kind of event, some kind of ritual. After that, he says, it seems like every day there's something new, but I'm not closer to understanding what's happening out here, or why.

I finally pulled myself away and practically stumbled away for the rock. I felt dizzy walking away. I just wanted to go back home. I started back in the direction of the house, and that's when I saw her. That woman from before. Oh, boy.

She was standing up on a hill, seemingly staring at nothing. I darted behind a nearby tree, but luckily I don't think she saw me. I hadn't seen her in weeks, but I knew she was still out here. I took a video from behind the tree. I don't even know why.

It's not like it'll do any good, but at least I have proof that I wasn't imagining any of this. And now the woman is just standing, or a figure, I'm guessing it is the woman still. It's the same kind of robe from earlier, or like giant sweater from earlier. But you can't really see the person's face. Their head is down, and the hood is down,

and they're just standing there. Which also from before, too, I think that she knows that he's there, obviously there. I know that Greg keeps saying stuff like, oh she didn't see me but as we've seen before she doesn't have eyes but she can very clearly understand where you're at yeah yeah like there's no purpose if she's blind there's no purpose in her pointing her head at you if anything she's probably got her ear down listening for you right um so yeah she had some kind of mystical sense or something some kind of like force that she uses

you know yeah not i wouldn't say like magic or some kind of power but it does seem like she has that ability yeah yeah i think so eventually she She left the hill and disappeared into the woods. Once I was sure she was gone, I left the tree and practically ran back home. The whole way back, I kept expecting her to appear again and attack me or something. I don't understand what she's doing out here. Is she a witch? That sounds so stupid, but I don't know how to explain any of this.

Those weird stick artifacts and out this thing on the rock, it feels like witchcraft or something. And who's on that boat I keep seeing out there on the lake? Why is everyone in town so weird? this point i just want answers and i feel like i'm getting close to getting them i'm just scared of what they might be i was just say i know that he says witch here and stuff do you think that it do you think it's applicable all to in this universe where it's obviously 2018 it's been by this point almost 20 years since blair witch has been out do you think it do you think it's helpful at all or like realistic that somebody might be like this reminds me of this thing so it's such a big

cultural thing or do you think it's good that he's been kind of like out of you know Because to me, I'm like, in the story so far, if the only reference you've ever had to something that might be witch or cult-like is, like, a movie that you might have heard of or seen, I almost wonder if he's like, I feel like I've seen this as something I've seen in a movie or like Blair Witch or something. You don't even have to be that specific, but I'm just wondering if, like, realistically, do you think that someone in a Twitter erie for something for social media would want to point to something as obvious as that? Uh, it depends. I mean, it's kind of like the whole zombie movie thing, right? Like, characters in zombie films never know they're in a zombie film. right even though in real life if dead people started walking around and moaning we'd be like oh that's a zombie they're always surprised by it right so there's kind of this unspoken rule that characters within a supernatural setting aren't aware that setting can take place but i feel like on twitter you don't really get that line of dialogue because it is so social media oriented so that's fair no i mean i i always associate the i guess as a rebuttal to the zombies i always associate that in the zombie movies zombies have never existed correct yeah that That's what I'm saying. So off of the back of that, a lot of horror stories like this kind of pretend like those things don't exist. Okay.

That's good to know. I'm curious if other people felt the same too. Because if that's the case, then that's totally cool of like, oh, in this universe, these other things have never really happened. So it's like totally huge as people. I would think so. Maybe if they're being more interactive with the audience and like it's a lot more conversational than, yeah, you can't really use that excuse. But for what Greg's doing here is like a totally committed. Twitter account just for the ARG.

I think it makes sense. Totally, yeah. And I think in any ways, too, I think it's totally fair to also be like, not to be like, this is something from a movie, but I think that you can be like, well, in a way, I think you could be like,

oh, I've seen this in horror movies, but it's almost like, um, this would never happen. Like in a haunting, right? And like a ghost movie, you're like, you hear about maybe other people being haunted, but you never expect yourself to be a person that's affected by something paranormal.

Yeah. So you're, like, reaching for things where you're like, oh, why? Because you could also say, like, that's why the character's in such a level of disbelief is because every other piece of evidence that he's seen towards this has been a work of fiction. So it could, like, lend itself there of like, hey, I know they're trying to scare me. I've seen this stuff before. This is stupid. Blah, blah, blah, until it becomes more and more real.

I didn't know if you could play into that way. But, no, I think it's fun, too, to just be like, eh, this thing has maybe never happened before in this universe. Yeah. Or at least, or at least, like, those kind of. movies that you're going to reference them yeah i think so and it looks like the and it looks like the uh next entry um because that was the end of that thread the next entry is december 11th 2018 at 454 p.m so once again it's been a couple days he's got some service again and he's going to tell us tell us some more and with our first uh message in that thread we have

i found out with those letters spell which is yes which is a great a great little Oh yes Oh yeah dude I'd basically forgotten about it after finding them outside the house I put them in the back of the closet and pretty much stopped thinking about them But yesterday I found something else There's this little alcove upstairs with built-in shelves and a bunch of old books Sort of a mini library

I was flipping through some of them looking for something to read When I came across this little book about wine Tucked inside were a couple of old Polaroid photos They were pretty faded so it was hard to make out what they were. We have attached pictures of Polaroid photos as well as the book. The first one...

It looks like the book, sorry, it looks at the book just here for the reader. It's like a red book, or the audio listeners here. It looks like it's a red book, and he's showing the spine of it, and it says notes on the seller book by George Sainsbury. There you go. Yeah, so there's that, and then it's just like, yeah, some Polaroids tucked in there, which, from what we

see here, there's just like faded pictures of maybe the woods. Yep. One says, the first one he says the first one was pretty unremarkable it looks like it's just photos of the trees outside which it doesn't seem to be anything suspicious in that photo

I will say it's kind of creepy though it's creepy it has like a layer it almost looks it's just the age of it like it looks aged in a way that's just kind of I don't know a bit haunting like almost ethereal there's like weird faded like the way the light is reflected in it

it feels very I don't know yeah ethereal to me yeah yeah the second one was even blurrier. For a minute, I didn't know what I was looking at, but then I realized it was of the house and letters I found on the ground

a couple weeks ago. The photo was super fuzzy, so it took me a second, but I was able to make it out. Deep Water Chapel. Oh, dude, I knew it was going to be this stuff. Oh, my heart. The house you're in as an old chattel. Dude, I knew it was going to be something like this.

Oh, that's like music. It's music to me. Oh, it's so good. Oh, God. Weird, culty, weird pagan religion type stuff, dude. Oh, man. I love it. I love it.

It's so good. I love it, too. I love it too, but I'm like, I, oh, oh, oh, right in the fields. Chapel. Oh, it's so good. I love it. It's like, crack. It's just like, oh, I'm in an abandoned church, the deep water chapel.

Like, you can imagine. Ah, it's, ah, love. I was reading that deal. You said, it's like, it's like, crack and it was you said crack right after like oh i love it it's exactly what i love and you're like it's like crack it's like okay isaiah i learned a little something new about your yeah how do you think i keep all these podcasts and shows going man you got a you haven't tapped into the crack meta yet you haven't got it got into the crack dLC yet oh dude you got to get you get you get like

the best most productive two years of your life and then you're dead after five but for those too, man, you can turn out some bangers. Yeah. Deepwater Chapel. Oh, that's so good. Okay. All right. This is so weird. I've never heard that name before. Was my house a church or something?

I spent the afternoon going through all the other books in the library, but didn't find any other pictures. I don't know what to make of this. I'll let you know if I find anything else, but yeah. I don't know. So good. The Deepwater Chapel thing is such a, it's a. such a good reveal. Did we ever, did we say where exactly in the country he's at? Because now I'm

thinking that he is in the south or in a southern part of maybe like the southern coast a bit. I don't think he ever said. We see the pictures which show a lot of pines. So I'm thinking more east south. Yeah. Like, uh, are you thinking east south? I was thinking like Washington or Oregon kind of deal. I mean, he could. He could. But there's also a lot of like, uh, pine type trees around like North Carolina true South Carolina that kind of area

that would fit the vibe but yeah oh man deep water chapel that ring it's right right where I like it to be that's fantastic especially with all this stuff and it looks like he he updates again

a couple days later at December 13th almost exactly at midnight which is kind of crazy and the message he says to begin this is she was here that woman was in my house

oh okay man what i wouldn't what i wouldn't give to be following this twitter account when it was happening while this guy is posted this and like you're scrolling through your phone you're like what my show's on my show's on exactly exactly yeah yeah that's what's fun about these you can get moments like that uh yeah yeah it's dope um so anyway continue the thread he says sorry i'm getting ahead of myself i can barely type sorry i'll try to explain i like how hurried that is too like the panic you can feel it yeah all right so i was in the woods out back yesterday when it started pouring it happened really suddenly and even though i wasn't far from the house i got

soaked anyway it rained most of the evening i left my clothes by the fireplace to dry and ended up going to bed early or i guess it was today sorry i'm still not really awake yet anyway i had this awful dream tonight sorry if i'm rambling a bit i'm still trying to collect my thoughts. Sorry, my hands are shaking. Okay, Greg, we get it. You're fucking sorry. In the... Good God. Sorry, hi. I'm like, Greg,

just stop typing, sorry. Just tell me what you need to do. Do you want the writer to be a guy who has an eyeless woman in his house or not? I do, but at the same time, I wish if it was this thing where it's like, sorry, my hands are shaking. I'd rather things just be like misspelled as if he's typing it quickly and be like, oh, I get it. He's rushed. All right. That's fair. sorry sorry i need to let you know sorry so much i think okay i think you're a hater

okay i think you're just a hater okay all right fine i'm a hater no no i don't ironically you are correct there were different ways to convey that but anyway in the dream i was on the deck outside with a bunch of friends from back home we're all sitting in a circle my friend eric was was there talking about how creepy the woods were he was saying how the trees were just big black silhouettes and anything could be out there watching you and you never know it he was sort of freaking me out but i was trying not to show it i'm all i know what you're doing and it's not gonna work you're not gonna scare me and eric sort of narrowed his eyes at me and says how about you take how about you take the quotes you're good at this you want to do the quotes

yeah all right so i'm gonna give eric i bet i can scare you yeah there you go something about the way he said it made me uneasy and i was like All right Very funny You can stop now But Eric wasn't smiling anymore He was just staring back at me The whole mood seemed to shift at that point

Nobody in the circle was talking anymore And it suddenly got really quiet No sound except the wind And the lake below Any trace of joking had disappeared from Eric's face After a long minute he slowly cocked his head To the side a bit and said Is there someone here

with us right now who shouldn't be? All of a sudden, I was too scared to break Eric's gaze. After I'd see something, I'd, afraid I'd see something I didn't want to. For a long time, we just stared at each other. Nobody said anything. Then, very softly, Eric said, Is there somebody watching you sleep right now, Greg? That's when I bolted awake

It was the middle of the night I was alone in my room But I had this weird feeling That someone had just been there in the room with me I laid there in bed for a minute Too terrified to move Too scared to breathe even And then I heard something downstairs

At least I thought I did This house is always making sound So I couldn't be sure I hesitated for a second Then crept out of bed and went down the hall, trying to be as quiet as possible. From the second floor landing, I could see the living room and part of the kitchen. Everything seemed normal.

I could hear the wind blowing pretty loudly outside, so I figured maybe I hadn't heard anything after all. I tried to calm myself down. I was wide awake at that point and too shaken to go back to bed, so I went downstairs to get a snack or some coffee or something. I walked into the kitchen and stopped dead in my tracks. there's a door in the kitchen that leads outside and it was wide open.

Oh, God. In the picture here, there's a picture that's accompanied with that and it's a picture of his kitchen and it's just leading out to some steps that lead into absolute darkness

to the outside world. Oh. This is good. This is really great. This is like the pacing, the direction, all that. That dream is so good. Someone in your dream saying,

is there someone watching you sleep right now? Oh, man. Well, yeah, Because it seems totally affected that the person that is in the house with you is almost communicating to you through your sleep. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, Greg's friend in that dream being, like, talking in that way makes me think, like, oh, really? Like, he is talking directly to the person that is, like, plaguing in his house.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's so good. I know I locked it. I lock all the doors every night. And even if I forgot to lock it, I know I wouldn't leave the door open like this. the whole kitchen floor is wet with rain i'm calling to locksmith first thing in the morning to come change the locks shit i want to leave but i don't even know where i'd go i'm alone out here should i find a motel and i just realized my wet clothes are gone she stole my clothes i'm not spending the night here i'm guessing he means that he uh had clothes out on some kind of uh wire like to dry i'm guessing yeah yeah so no like he mentioned that it was pouring the rain and he comes inside and

like throws his wet clothes in a pile then goes to bed so this she took the clothes there she took the clothes that were in his house okay all right also something funny about that the last if you click on the last tweet I realize my clothes are gone and you scroll down a bit I maybe it doesn't happen

to everyone but I got a clothes ad for like jeans like never never get wet in your new quick dry pants thank you X very cool Now, here, just as another thought experiment here with the great photo of the kitchen door being open that leads outside, do you wish that there was like footsteps or like some kind of footprint on the tile floor leading outside or even inside to show like somebody's, or do you like the fact that it's clear? I like the ambiguousness of it, I think, because it's like what rooms were they in, where'd they go, you know?

It does make it feel more paranormal. Yeah, I think it's a good touch. Yeah, I mean, I think either way, I think it's cool. I just, it's, it's definitely a stylistic choice here that's happening with having that. You know what I mean? Like, someone is inexplicably coming in and doing that, which also, um, he did respond on the 13th as well to one of the people. Yes.

So, he responded to one of the quotes or one of the responses. Yeah, so someone replied to that last tweet and said, if she was able to navigate in the house and she has no eyes that means she's familiar with the house and the house layout she's been in there before and knows it well enough to walk around without bumping into anything and making a lot of noise so then he quote tweet gregg quote tweets that says i didn't even think of this i left but i'm still freaking out a bit i'm trying to find a hotel or something which is a fun little interaction you know with what's going on yeah and he doesn't respond he doesn't update us until 10 days later on December 23rd

Which let me find the top one here This one looks to be a bit longer December 23rd here I'm sorry I haven't said anything in a while That's where it begins Correct yes yeah yeah All right so 10 days later he says

I'm sorry I haven't said anything in a while I've been staying in a motel about an hour outside of town There you go great That's the spirit There you go When I left the house that night I just kept driving until I felt like I was far enough away to feel safe.

To feel safe. I called the locksmith, but they weren't able to come out right away. And there was no way I was going back to the house without new logs. So I've been waiting out here until I can go back. Basically doing nothing. Jumping at every little sound and feeling crazy. And I want to say here, that's another little thing to me that indicates that the entire town is a part of this chapel or a part of this maybe paganistic, you know,

even a satanic religion thing. because now the locksmith's like I don't know I doubt it there's no one else that's living out on that lake yeah there's people in town but dude you're telling me that you couldn't come out on a like there's no one else yeah what business are you getting to

like you have so many customers beating down your door yeah that's what I'm saying yeah finally a couple days ago the locksmith called back and said he'd come out so I checked out of the motel and got in my car to drive home it was a pretty long drive back and the closer I got to the one the worst I felt

in my head I knew going back was wrong but I can't just sleep for good I don't know I can't explain it I can't leave

I don't expect anyone to understand I don't even understand I think it's because he's getting indoctored I think he's getting indoctrinated spiritually and I also think

there's a part of him that needs to know what all this means what does deep water chapel mean what does the town mean what does you know his grandfather

what is his connection to all of it he's been here before what was that like too many too many loose ties and he's being influenced

negatively by something that is like coercing him to stay yep yep anyway i drove past town and reached the woods where the roads get worse and harder to drive on they get twisty as you drive up to the house and you have to be careful not to hit deer i almost always see a dozen or so deer on my drive but today there were none not a single deer in sight in fact the woods seemed a lot quieter than usual i could have been imagining it but something definitely seemed off i was almost ready to turn around when something darted across the road. It was so fast that I wasn't sure I saw it at all. I panicked and swerved off the road and into a deep groove by the roadside.

By the time I realized what had happened, the thing was gone. I had no idea what it was. It was just a blur. But it wasn't a deer. It was red. Red like blood. Worse, my car was stuck. It's my mom's old car, this weak little two wheel drive,

and I couldn't manage to get it out of the groove. I sat there for a long time trying to figure out what to do. I knew it wasn't a good idea to walk the rest of the way, but if I didn't, I'd miss the locks and I'd have to either spend the night in the house with old locks or go back to the motel, which I couldn't afford. I wasn't too far from the house, so I'd made the most sense to walk the rest of the way

and call a tow truck from home. I needed to meet the locksmith anyway, so I got out and started walking. Once I was outside, I realized I'd been right about the wood, seeming quieter than usual. I couldn't even hear any birds. It was dead silent. My footsteps seemed so loud. Every twig that cracked under my shoe sounded like a bone breaking. I was periodically checking my phone's GPS to make sure I was heading the right way. I had just checked my route and was about to put my phone away when I saw something that made my heart sink. It was another

of those artifacts, like the ones I'd seen on my first day here, but it had one of my gloves tied to it from the rainstorm last week. When I left my clothes by the fire to dry there was a pair of gloves with them. So now we have one of those effigies but it's the gloves that were stolen from his room now hung up in the middle of this shape. I think that we can confirm

then that the person making it is the woman with the hood since we have to assume that she was the one who stole the clothes. Yeah. Who stole the clothes correct. Yeah. I knew that woman had taken my clothes that night and this just confirmed it. I also knew I'd find the rest of my clothes before I even saw them, and sure enough, I found more of those

artifacts not far from the first. I found my other glove, my socks and a bandana, everything from that night except for a sweatshirt I'd been wearing. And it's just the same kind of photos again, except with other various clothes inside of the artifacts, basically just like strung up through twine in the middle of these artifacts hanging on various trees in the woods, which also, just as a thought as well there being no um there being no animals makes me think that also they're ushering something there like maybe they're i almost feel like something sacrificial is coming some kind of evil is coming towards um gregg in this house or this chapel and now even like because you know that's usually an indicator too like birds yeah animals can kind of sense these things as

well so i'm wondering yeah when they go quiet something's happened typically yeah i left them alone this time i didn't want to touch them all i wanted to do was set was get back to the house get the locks changed call a tow truck i started jogging a bit wanting nothing more than to get away from those stick things but after a while i started to think that i should have been home already i slowed my pace it took up my phone but it wouldn't calibrate this time it couldn't seem to locate me in the GPS still i could hear the lake off to my left which meant if i kept walking alongside it I should get to my house eventually so I kept moving and

tried not thinking about getting lost I must have gotten turned around because I was walking for what seemed like ages gosh someone turned on a vacuum cleaner in the house and it scared me to death oh my gosh you need to figure out your house to

I do I need to get my house in order well someone got right outside of my door and turned it on so all I heard was be like gosh i'm just gonna i'm gonna find i'm gonna buy a shed and i'm gonna set out there no one can bother me there you know that'll make me feel better um i couldn't hear the i kept moving and tried not to think about getting lost must have gotten turned around because i was walking for what seemed like ages i found myself in a part of the woods seemed unfamiliar i had no idea where i was and then suddenly i saw something off in the distance

something bright white almost seeming to glow against the dark trees oh weird yeah i mean it's like a to describe the the image to audio listeners right now it's i would say it's a fairly standard photo of trees but there's just like white almost like egg looking like eggs kind of well like large if we get to the next few tweets i couldn't figure out what it was from a distance so i went closer trying to be as quiet as could. When I actually got close enough to see what it was, my mouth literally fell open. It was

eggs. Huge eggs. All in a cluster, like a nest. Oh, my God, dude. What are we getting at? What is happening now? I'm so lost in the stomach. Is this going to be about a giant fucking chicken, dude?

What are we doing here? If I, if this turns into a giant rooster, I am going to be so pissed. Because even the giant red, a speedy chicken cross the road. Oh my God. How do the chicken cross the road?

Is this seriously where we're going, dude? That's what happened. Why don't you find out? We're going to find. Yeah. They were enormous. They were enormous. It's hard to.

explain their size but you can sort of see them in relation to my boot here so what do you mean it's hard to explain i see them they're giant in the previous in the previous photo there's a tree and they dwarf the it's literally the these eggs are like what they're bigger than a basketball yeah they're like basketball size just these big giant white eggs in the middle of the forest yeah i felt like i was dreaming before i even knew what i was doing i touched one i couldn't help myself it was warm I just I couldn't help myself

I had to touch the egg I had a sudden urge to smash it and see what was inside but then just as quickly decided against it that's odd I would have expected

with how quickly he burned the artifact earlier I would expect him just like heel stomps smash smash let's see what happens exactly let's hope mom takes it to the diner

I would have proper eggs Benedict. Well, you guys don't have eggs. Serve me one of these, huh? Idiot. Yeah, well, you know there's giant eggs on the wood, right? I felt sick, like I was going to throw up if I didn't leave right away. I left the clearing and tried to listen for the lake, then headed in that direction.

I got to the lake shore and felt a little better. Since I was out of the trees, I had a better view of my surroundings, and I was able to pinpoint my house a ways down the shore. I never thought I'd be so happy to see it. The rest of the way back, I felt like I had vertigo. I couldn't make sense of everything that just happened. I still can't. I reached the house and somehow felt a little better once I was inside. The locksmith arrived a little bit later and changed out the locks.

I watched him work in a daze. I also had him installed dead bolts. I called a tow truck, and they got my car out of the ditch. But now I'm alone again, and I can't stop thinking about what I saw. I can't figure any of this out. I don't know what's happening. I know I should leave, but I just can't. at least nobody can get inside tonight at least i'm safe inside

hmm that's the end of that thread which also what that's the end of that thread there and it's interesting too that he says that the uh that the that what was it the he's like the the the even the guy worked in a days yeah yeah you know what i mean like there's just something kind of interesting about that particular thing that i think is just kind of interesting I don't know why It makes you just seem like he's like Not zombie But like almost like

You know how like when you see culty stuff You're kind of brainwashed or you're kind of just like Yeah With the flow I don't know if you felt the same way But I just I felt like there was some kind of correlation there maybe Yeah Yeah

Feels like so the next one here is December 28th And the first one I see here I think is I heard something Something was outside Yep All right So continuing there, he says, I was in the kitchen, washing a glass, and I heard something outside on the deck, a scratching sound. And then it stopped.

I thought I imagined it, but then I heard footsteps. And for some reason, I just ran outside without thinking. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't even know if I'm scared anymore. I just want answers. I can't be sure, but I think it was her. I saw someone running into the woods. I'm sure it was her, but I couldn't catch her in time.

I thought about chasing her into the woods but decided against it I don't want to get lost out there at nine I turned around to go back inside and that's when I saw what she'd been doing on my deck in the first place I shouldn't be surprised by these artifacts but this one was huge taller than me and it had my sweatshirt from the storm tied in the middle and then here we have a much larger effigy this time

with his shirt tied in the middle of it and the words written next to it that read, Fear the New Moon. How are you doing, Hunter? Good God. Just, it's just a horrifying thing. It's so large, too.

But the scale of, I'm also, it's kind of funny. I'm picturing this, like, eyeless, hairless woman, like, trudging through the forest with this giant, Triangle thing It's like God, it's like getting caught on weeds

and something Pulling it through And having it like Probably the twine Being able to hold the sweatshirt It'd probably be a huge pain in the ass So I don't know It's kind of funny to think

But it is horrifying Yeah Yeah And also fear the new moon Is very interesting Fear the new moon The new moon So after that

He says Honestly I was just going to leave it there I'm sick at this. I was about to go back inside when I noticed there was something written on the wall behind the artifact. I hadn't even seen it before, which is the fear of the new moon. What does that mean? I don't know where that woman got a marker, and I don't know how familiar she feels around my house.

I don't like how familiar she feels around my house of property. I hate that I consider this my house now. This feels normal now. I'm losing it. I want this to end. Whatever this new moon shit is, I feel like something's coming. screw this yeah what was your first indicator

that something was coming well yeah it's like dude no shit something I don't know and then he also puts on December 28th here he says I guess the next the next new moon is January 5th

and he gives like a little indicator which is kind of interesting and also we have the next post which is January 4th the night before the new moon yeah yep yeah it says there's going to be a storm tomorrow

and then the new moon moon is tomorrow two I should be fine I'll just stay inside just very simple little updates here that would have been so cool to be a part of that initial run and then we get then I believe the biggest thread of the whole thing is the January 5th thread I think this is the main one okay yeah because I was going to say after this the last one is January 16th so we're coming up on something but it looks like the January 5th is huge yes January 5th is the main thing yep I just I just I I have this huge, which I'm preemptively just speculating along with the viewer, hopefully, or the listener here, is, um, I just feel like the woman, the hairless, eyeless woman is somehow connected to Greg in some way. The twin aspect is just, it's, it's, it's, there's so much foreshadowing to that to where I don't know if we're going to have something where it's like, I'm actually your mother, Greg, or something like that, something kind of crazy.

because also we have not had a lot of insight in from like is the mom does the mom even care that Greg is there like obviously it's the spotty kind of self service sure you have that but it just feels like what exactly is this relation this retaliation also out of all the family members you're saying the grandpa just gave it to Greg randomly what is what is the grandpa setting up that we haven't had yet that also didn't go into a his parents' hands. There's just a lot of things where I don't think Greg even really knows the kind of danger he's in. Obviously, he doesn't know the kind of danger he's in, but I think, like, something kind of family-oriented where it's like he was doomed to fail since he was born or something like that. So, January 5th, the night of the new moon, we have this tweet.

Oh, wait, too. Okay, yeah, New Year. Sorry, January, duh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been a whole year. Yeah, it's been a week. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah It's been storming all day And ended the night Thunder and everything I've stayed inside all day Nothing has happened yet Maybe nothing will happen Still I'm nervous

I've been freaked out all day Maybe I shouldn't have stayed I don't know what's wrong with me I should leave tomorrow I'm not even really sure What I'm saying I just need to occupy myself with something Writing this makes me feel less alone

It's like I'm talking to someone I can't do this anymore I'm leaving tomorrow First thing in the morning I don't care about selling this house anymore I just want to go home I just need to make it through the night I'll be fine if I stay inside

the locks are new and nobody can get in I'll be fine I'm going to go get some wine and stay in the upstairs bedroom tonight it'll be okay and then he replies a few hours later by saying she's here

she was in the cellar I practically ran right into her she didn't even hear me because of the thunder outside her back was to me and she was standing dead still in the middle of the room just staring at the wall so i actually really like this picture what a wonderful wonderful photo it's great it's great so for the audio listeners uh standing down in the cellar from earlier staring at the crest on the wall um it is her with her back facing the camera and she's got like ratty mangled hair and her uh she's wearing the hoodie from before but the hood's down and she's just staring into the crest very very creepy very good vignette too it's like this old brick wooden cellar kind of thing and just staring deeply at the crest i knew that crest was creepy too earlier i was like what what the hell is going on to that crest i couldn't move i was

petrified at first i was afraid i was petrified yeah exactly yeah i was petrified all I could do was stand there like a fool and stare at the back of her head and then she turned around and she spoke to me oh here we go she said she won't hurt me she said she'd explain everything I'm sorry this is all happening so fast she's sitting in my living room now I can't believe this is happening what so the eyeless bald woman is just like

hey let me tell you what's up and now they're casually talking Just wait, wait for it, wait for it. Okay, all right, all right, all right. Sorry, I'm just trying to make sense of this. She said she'll tell me everything, I'll be back. So then time passes, and he continues with the thread, okay? Which here, wait, let me see. So he said, I'll be back at 845, and then he comes back two hours later,

or almost three hours, 1057, a couple hours later. And he says, okay, so I'll try to relay everything she said, but there was so much of it. I can barely keep track of it all. I'll start at the beginning. First, she says she made the stick things for my protection. She says it's dangerous out here, and she was trying to protect me.

When I asked what she was trying to protect me from, she was quiet for a long time. When she finally replied, I could barely hear her. You want to do the quotes? There are things in the water. I didn't really believe her. her, but I didn't have any rational explanation for the things I've seen. So instead, I just listened.

Here's what she told me. A long time ago... Oh, no, no, perfect, perfect. You go right ahead. Yeah, sorry. A long time ago, something came from the sky and landed in the lake. They brought something with it. Something ancient and strange. The people who lived here began to commune with it.

They protected it from the outside world, devoted their lives to it. and in return the thing gave them a gift that people were blessed with abnormally long healthy lives and many children but it all came with a price

I had so... Oh, go ahead. I had so many questions but didn't know which ones to ask so I just sat there in silence and took it all in. The woman continued. In the beginning

there was just the one. It spent most of the time in the deep lake. It spent most of the time deep in the lake, slumbering. But over time, it made more. Instinctively, I asked about the eggs. Oh, sorry.

It made more. Instinctively, I asked about the eggs I saw in the woods. The woman nodded. There are so many of them now. They come from the water to lay eggs, and the people take care of them. Hide them away until they hatch. But when they hatch, they need to feed.

dude we're gonna get into giant alien chickens how do you feel about that giant alien chickens I mean I don't know I mean I don't know I also I also am getting a I also am getting a feeling that this is Greg's real mom I want to say that I'm putting that on I'm putting that bet down at this point I was starting to put two and two together

I thought about all the twins I've seen in town she must have sensed my understanding because she spoke again I told you there was a price the people in this town are blessed with many children but they don't get to keep them all when the eggs hatch

the people must bring one of their own to the woods the creatures need to eat she was quiet again then they start with your eyes it's his mom it's the twin it's his mom's it's his mom's twin

I'm telling you I asked her how she knew all this but I already knew the answer I know because it happened to me when I was a girl my father brought me into the woods with the others offered me up to the newborns she turned her head towards the window

like she was gazing into the distance they took my eyes I waited until she was ready to speak again It was a long time before she did She told me how she was led to one of the eggs How she watched it break open How something came out of it She doesn't know if she managed to push the creature off

Or if someone helped her But she got away and ran into the woods She ran until she couldn't breathe anymore I felt completely bewildered None of this made any sense to me But at the same time It did somehow I had so many questions I wanted to ask, but I couldn't sort my thoughts.

I couldn't figure out what to say. Finally, I asked, why are you telling me this now? After all this time, the woman didn't say anything at first. She took a long, labored breath. It's the same every year. They come out of the water in the fall, lay their rakes. A few of them begin to hatch early. They feed on animals in the woods.

They need strength to make it back. to the water but most of the match when it's darkest she turned without eyes oh so i i figure we could just yeah yeah yeah keep going keep going uh oh sorry no sorry go ahead sorry i sorry i'm sorry i got her quote was even without my bad she turned to me even without eyes i felt like she was staring right at me tonight is the new moon tonight is the ceremony my stomach began to say sink as realization set in. Realization about what was happening out there in the woods at that very moment. We have to do something.

Oh, fuck. Fuck, sorry. You're good. I appreciate the enthusiasm. We have to do something to stop it. I blurted out. I started getting out of my chair, but she just shook her head. She said there was nothing we could do.

It happens the same way every year. We can't stop it. But I was a little. listening anymore. I don't know what came over me, but I jumped up and ran out the door, ran into the woods. I don't even know where I was going. At some point, the rain had stopped. It was dark and I couldn't see anything, but I could hear things all around me. Things moving through the trees, and I could see lights in the distance. Fire or flashlights. I don't know. I had no idea where to go or what to do. More than once, something ran by me in the trees. I was just

using my phone as a flashlight and tried to take pictures of the trees trying to see what was out there but everything was happening so fast I don't know what these are really fun pictures of something weird and red in the in the woods here I'm going to I there's more pictures I'm going to speculate that these it looks like a beak on one of them I think we are going into giant chicken territory I don't know what do you think of what do you think of the photos the first two photos what you're feeling on them what's what i mean is that so to describe to the viewer it's like he's taking a picture there's flash so you get some of the weeds in front of him but it's like a dark um forest but there is a red it kind of looks like a skinless person but in the second

photo when it the eyes you can see you're looking it's like almost as if the person is looking at them and then from what i see here i can't tell if there's a brush in front of them but it looks like there's a beak on the thing on the person's face okay after and then below that it says this is the clearest shot it could get they all move so fast and it's a blurred photo of it looks like a skinless thing it looks like you it looks like a bone on the face of it once again beakish birdish is what i would i would consider that a skull i think that looks more like a skull sure i i think like like i said it looks like it's like bloody like blood skin draped over a skull whatever but it doesn't look like a regular nose it's it's arched in a way that looks beakish you have to beckish you have to beck be honest with yourself, say it. You're not losing the chicken narrative, are you? I am refusing until it proves otherwise. We are in giant egg chicken territory.

I don't know. Okay. All right, so the giant chickens are out there. I like this one of like the blurred photo of like the bloody skull thing. Oh, it's fun. It's a really fun photo. I think that's neat. Yeah.

Super fun. I ran for what seemed like an eternity, ran in circles. I had no idea where I even was. and then somehow I was back in that same clearing where the eggs had been they were gone now nothing but bits of shell

left on the ground yeah so we get the same kind of area that we were at earlier and now it's just like kind of broken shell fragments on the ground yeah it was over

I was too late it had already happened and they cleaned everything up I was too late I stood alone in the clearing the lights in the distance were disappearing It was getting quieter, and just like that, I was running again, running toward the lake.

I don't even know why. I couldn't do anything. Branch just scrape my face as I ran blindly through the trees. And that is the end of that thread. That is the end of January 5th Fred, and he doesn't thread, and he doesn't, I think I said Fred. That's the end of the January 5th thread, and he doesn't come back in our last, this is the last thread he does here. Okay, this is very stupid. but there is a bit more after it.

Okay. So if you go click on the tweet that says, I don't, I couldn't do anything, Branch's scrape my face. Wait, no, not even that one. Why did he format it this way? I don't know what to say right now. I would leave in the morning.

No. So if you go to the tweet, wait, it might be that one. Let me look. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, go to that one. And then it says, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm back at the house now.

Okay, yeah. So after that, after he says running branches scrape my face um he says i reached the water but there was nothing there i saw some faint ripples out in the black water but besides that it was silent it was over i was too late i'm back at the house now the woman's gone it's so quiet i don't know what to say right now i'm going to leave in the morning i'm sorry i just i just don't know what else to say I'm sorry. And there we have the end of that January 5th thread, I think.

Yeah, so that should be the end of it. And then it goes up to the January 16th one. And this is our last, his last entry was on January 16th. Yes, this is the finale as far as we know to, at the moment at least, because it could pick up any day, you know, for these things. Sure. You know, no. At the moment, this is the end of the series.

I'm still here. I'm alive. I left the house after that night. I decided not to sell it. I don't think anyone would buy it anyway. I locked the doors and I got in my car, and I left. I'm home now, trying to process everything. The morning after, it was so quiet and peaceful in the woods,

it was like nothing had happened at all. I'm still not sure what to believe. It sort of feels like it happened to someone else, or like I dreamed it, maybe. Sorry it took me so long to update. I wasn't sure what to say. I still have so many questions. I might never have all the answers.

but something happened out there. I can't explain it, and I don't know if I could have done anything to stop it. But whatever it was, I can't let it happen again. That's why I'm not selling the house. That woman said this happens every year. If she was telling the truth,

then maybe there's something I can do next time. I have to try. So I guess that's all for now. I'm heading back to school next week, so hopefully that will take my mind off things. I need some sense of normalcy again. I'm not sure when I'll tweet again. again. I need to take a break and get my head together, but I'll be back. I have to go back. I won't let it happen again.

And there we have the ending of the Gregory 88 story. The Gregory 88 story ends there. You know what's interesting about this one is the realism of following the story, and I kind of like that it doesn't get so deep. detailed to where it's like Greg just found out everything. Greg found like you get little glimpses of stuff and you have this woman who's obviously in my opinion is definitely the twin of his mom who's trying to uh protect him which is also maybe why you when he does these things and he burns these protective things at first maybe that's why he gets some of the things that are messing with him but it seems like he was protected in this incident in this incident from whatever kind of a creature that's been existing in this lake for however long

and now these town folks have been just been living here forever which is why they're so like oh this is somebody new like they're probably super super old you know what I mean um and they're having these twins and they have to offer them up to the chicken aliens I'm still believing that they're chicken aliens but I will say the story reminds me a lot of like Dagon it reminds me of like the insmouth story where it's like a town is plagued by a creature or a deity in this case it was like some eldric god in the case of HP Lovecraft and it makes them live longer and it makes them rich but it distorts them into fish people it kind of gave me that vibe obviously the people aren't being like transformed in that way they just have to kind of sacrifice one of their offspring

which is kind of interesting but I don't know this was a fun one I think it's cool I mean how how do you feel about it how do you feel about it how do you feel about the ending all right so i remember now why i didn't remember how it ended uh and it's because i forgot that it ended that way it ended like what felt like in virtue like you know middle of the action um okay i love the premise a lot yep i think it's the idea like i've had my grandfather's old house there's a squatter there it becomes this like cult conspiracy i to me the story peaks with the deep water chapel reveal uh because it asked so many questions about why was this a church what did my grandfather have to do with it was he the pastor did he come to own it yeah why was it changed

why is everyone in the town around it is this why there's cold happenings around it because it was a church it it puts you right in the seat i think that's the pinnacle of the story and then from there i think it it knows dives a bit um yeah there there What it feels like from a writing perspective is that he had a lot of threads. I say he, because the name's Greg. Whoever wrote this. I feel like whoever wrote this had a lot of threads that they were actively working on that for some reason they wrapped up really quickly.

We did not get an explanation as to what the eyeless want. We get that she's eyeless because the thing's bitter face, sure. but we don't get an explanation as to how she connects to the chapel why she has a loyalty to the grandson of maybe the preacher the person who owns it we do not know what the deep i mean sure we are given enough inference we can assume that when this thing came to earth that maybe the the deepwater chapel was its first congregants right maybe the pastor maybe you know his grandfather was the person who spoke and like convinced townspeople that they need to give in and to, excuse me, that they need to give into these new alien invaders and you could even imagine a really cool scenario where you have a pastor in this old time

in church who is convincing his congregants that this is Jesus, right? Or that this is the second coming and that people need to give themselves to it. They need to offer up their children like Abraham offered up Isaac to God. There's so many cool visuals you can pull off with that but everything I just said is inference

because we're like if maybe if he found like an altar underground in the in the the the cellar right then maybe that would have some more explanation as to why the mom doesn't even want to mention the grandfather's name but if that's the case then the mom should dissuade her son from going back there at all if it was to that level of extreme yeah it doesn't there's there's too many things left i mean like the biggest thing being the grandpa i mean especially if the whole thing is like pretty much they're saying that the prosper that this basically new deity that falls to earth and is living there

is offering the town for consumption to eat or for consumption is immortality is what they're saying or at least a prolonged life right give us you're young and we'll give you long life basically which which honestly i i think this is the reason that the story frustrates me so much because that is such a cool premise because it is it is a church that deals with like a lot of American Gothic aesthetics deep water chapel right how cool is that but then what the church is theoretically doing

in our head canon for it at least is they're doing what a lot of the pagan religions of the Old Testament would do they would serve up their children to bail and to the false gods so that they were given strength and magic and long life or what have you that they're reverting

to this Old Testament evil it's such a cool idea but everything we just said is like maybe this is what happened and sometimes that's cool and horror like leaving it up to the audience's imagination but not entire plot threads not entire you know character changes

and stuff there's too much left there's too many um things given at the beginning that I don't think fully come around because I think like you're saying there's ways where you can leave it to where it's like well dude is he supposed to find out everything and the answer is probably no realistically the majority of the time but I think that you can at least

unveil enough to where you know that at least you can let your mind run with it a bit more with some of the information that's given to you i mean dude you're given giant eggs in the woods yes and it's like and it's one of these things where it's like you're giving all of these these kind of big subject that are themes in the story and they never really come back around like i'm almost wondering if instead of a kid who is who isn't even graduated college yet a college student who's given a house, right? Instead, if it was something where it's like, hey, um, the grandpa's alive and he's been alive way too long. And he's still alive and he lives there and you're taking after you're, you're taking care of this grandpa character or whatever. And now

you have this, the eyeless bald woman who basically survived this mutilation. That would give him more reason to not leave, right? Beyond just, I feel for some reason I'd be like to stick around. Yeah. You need to stick with them. You could also have the mom who, survived that was chosen to be the one where he's like, I choose you to live and I'm going to sacrifice your sister, your twin sister. He could feel, she could feel some kind of like loyalty to this

religion, which is like you need to take after your grandpa, blah, blah, blah, all this stuff. Which is also why you could have the woman who survived this attack is basically resentful towards this father and has been like trying to kill him or do something along those.

You can just set up that stuff, right? And then you have the town of people who is essentially a cold who's like worshipping this kind of god or this religion and you can have more themes in that but it just really doesn't explore any of the things that i wish it would have because like you're saying dude it sets up all these cool things um that that's the only reason that i care because it is cool it is cool ideas that are being put out there it's just don't really going anywhere like for example the the egg thing go ahead go ahead sorry well i was just to it's my first twitter a rg i have nothing else to compare it to so the approach to this is

is still new to me, but it still feels like, you know, even if it is kind of a new way of telling a story, I still think that you need some of those pieces of information, some of those plot threads or something to put in there. Like, okay, for example, the egg thing, right? If there was given more explanation, like, say for example, we find out maybe there's, what would be cool is if, let's say his grandfather is the pastor of this place, would explain how he owns the building. Um, and obviously it quit being a church at some point because it was renovated into a house or maybe it'd be even creepier if it was a church and then

the townspeople renovated it into a house because they needed his grandson to be there for some reason see all the stuff I'm doing is like conjecture it's not stuff that's in the story but for example the egg thing right maybe he finds his grandfather's book of sermons or writings or something like that and maybe it is a kind of idolatry for them to disrupt the image of the womb the image of the egg maybe that's why there's no eggs in the town because it's a disgrace to their new god that is a feasible explanation but as it stands in the story it's just really goofy like they can't eat eggs because they like because they worship the big egg what

there's nothing that comes full circle is like yeah it's like they worship the big egg or whatever yeah there's nothing that really makes sense to why that's not in the town or there's just too much too and like and sure it'd be a bit cheesy but if if he could find like a riding from his father in his shelf of books, which is where I thought that was going to go in the story, have some detail where it's like, we should not put forward the idolatry of our God to blah, blah, blah, whatever, whatever. That's fun. But they don't do that. So it's just like, oh, you can't eat eggs. You have, you have the Benedict on the menu. Yeah, exactly. Don't include the diner and don't be like, I got an eggs Benedict without the eggs. It's like, that doesn't feel satisfying. It doesn't

come it doesn't come back around i will say too i just wanted to say this to why it's on my mind is also i think you should have i think you themed this thing as well to make it like harder to leave him continuously being like all right i'm leaving i don't this is crazy yeah yeah new property sure whatever he i think if it was in the dead of winter and you're snowed in snowed in's a good one it's like a much colder environment it's gonna be a lot harder to leave a town when it's like i physically cannot drive out of the town snowing And you could even have, you could have town members being like, I really wouldn't drive up there. Yeah.

You even have all these, you have all these elements, two of him being like, windy roads. It's like, it'd be unrealistic. There's no way. What happens, and this is a lesson to anyone out there who wants to write. Not that I'm a professional writer, but I dabble. Like, what happens when you make an answer two-dimensional? Like, why do you want to stay at the house? Because I want to stay at the house.

When you do something like that, you tie your hands for the rest of the story, right? because then you have to have scenarios like okay well Greg needs to come back to the house later in the story so I want to stay I'm gonna go stay at a motel I actually want to stay so I'm gonna drive back now oh look my car stuck rather than if you like what Hunter suggested

you could have it be he snowed in and like his car gets stuck in the ice so he has to begrudgingly return home there needs to be elements out of your control what I would do if I was writing this story I would have his grandfather be like the house is willed to him, but his grandfather's like bedside, like he's comatose almost in the house.

And now the son's there. And so he can't leave because his grandfather's there. But the grandfather can't speak unless later in the story it becomes convenient for him to. Then you have the whole calvacate of you have your book of information delivered right there at the bedside. Then you could keep the eyeless woman as more of a mysterious figure. later into the plot and have his suddenly lucid grandfather talking about the new moon you can have you give yourself options when you don't just make it well i feel like i need to stay because i feel like i need to stay yeah creepy grandpa on his deathbed is like or he's like dying and he's just

like maybe he's resentful or he feels guilt about the things that he did or something like that he's walking around aimlessly he could wait gray could wake up and be like yeah my grandpa is just standing in my room looking at me yep yep And then you could have scenes where, like, the eyeless woman, you could have grandpa be like, I talk to her today, or something like that, right? She's not supposed to be here. Yeah, yeah, stuff like that. She's never supposed to be here. Like, and then you don't have to do stuff.

Like, it was fine in the story. Like, it was a creepy moment. The whole, is someone watching you sleep right now? But then you don't have to use dream conversations to lure back in to get, you could just have like the old man be kind of the delivery for that stuff. You could do a lot of really cool stuff here. What? This is the first time we get Isaiah Hater mode. dude no i'm not okay hold on no no no no no no no don't wish that on me don't wish them i'm not

hating it's because this is so good of a setup that i'm jealous i for one i'm jealous i didn't come up with it for one but two i'm upset that it's like you were you were right there you were rounding second base and you tripped right like i uh the entire setup is amazing the early videos and the photos of like the woman standing there she looks at them all creepy done extremely effectively it takes a cornballish look on the eyeball thing which obviously pays out with like oh they're eating the eyeballs but they're eating the eyes yeah yeah why was the eye there uneaten what did that have to do what's what so i mean it's like so and it wasn't the new moon i i read the eye out but i'm just going to leave it yeah apparently these eye eating chicken things

don't actually need to eat them that bad if they're willing to just throw them out and also like Okay, most stories like this would keep it to a purely paranormal angle. They would, or supernatural, I should say. They would have it that the cult worshipped the devil or they worshipped a ghost, an entity in the lake, like the lady of the lake or whatever, right? You could have something like that. I'm not saying it has to be that. As a matter of fact, I think it's kind of cool if it's a physical monster or like a race of monsters. I think that's a neat touch, right?

if played differently, you could have the town worship like the things in the lake, like these lizard people things or whatever. That could be a lot of fun. But when your execution of it is giant eggs, like just don't show the eggs. Just say there's, just say, say, okay, look, here's your change for that. When they hatch, they crawl out of the water to get food, they kill, and then they go back to the water. So then you can play with footsteps around the shores of the lake. You could have.

Does it make sense that creatures from a lake that live underwater lay their eggs on land for them to crawl back and the, does that make sense? It's like, it's like the, uh, the sea turtle thing. You know how sea turtles do that? Yeah, but it's like, so. And, but let me tell you, let me say this too. If you introduce, dude, if you introduce giant sea turtles, giant eggs into your story and you have photos of it, you better have a good explanation for it. That's all I got to say. That is a ballsy, ballsy thing to put in a story. It is a thing to throw out there to be like, yeah, I got eggs. Crisp, crisp porcelain white eggs. And you know what? You know what? If he executed well on it, I would have been like insane. Oh my God. It would have been, I would have been like, you know, how do you make eggs come full circle in this way? And if it was satisfying, it would have been amazing. And it doesn't really, it doesn't get there. I've given some theories to how you could.

like maybe maybe the okay maybe you take away some of the supernatural aspect and it's more animalistic it's more like giant dinosaurs or whatever and the only reason there's this cult development around them is because his grandfather pushed a cult mindset onto the people and maybe that's why they still serve him maybe you don't need to do a ritual at all maybe the the dinosaurs don't give people supernatural abilities maybe it's just this broken conviction members of this town have maybe you could do something like that and then you could like I said tie in like eggs like eating eggs or whatever as goofy as it is was seen as like a form of hypocrisy or heresy or what have you like you could you could do fun stuff with it but

as it stands it's like yeah so anyway this giant super smart ghost thing it lays eggs and then the eggs eat twins eyes also you can't what do you mean they start with the eyes they eat people why do you need to start with eyes you can just what's to say there's so there's so many vision like where it's like so they just mindlessly eat eyes and then they go in the water like and if the whole thing with them okay maybe i am getting i say a hater mode now if the whole thing with them is that the only reason this whole transaction goes through of like townspeople get old and live a long life because they feed their children to it how does things like the eyeless woman getting away happen what they don't go grab her and bring her back because her getting away

endangers their whole cult practice by sacrificing children to it and they just let her live in the woods now she spent like the past 20 years as a blind child in the woods with no supernatural abilities it's just a blind woman we i have to reiterate this dude because i know i got we i got some hate last time when we were talking about well don't worry i'll get the hate this time we're going to get some hate this time but i'm just saying that it's just because it kind of feels that the story here was that it seems like Greg was just like I'm getting bored of writing this I'm just gonna end it

is how I think what happened you have so much you have so much fun set up it sets up so fun I was like so hooked dude I got so hooked in Deepwater Chapel had me by the neck

and then dude exactly and then you introduced the eggs and I'm like that's when I was like you'd be a better have something it's a check and it didn't deliver because you can't have the eggs

dude you have the eggs you have a red you cannot have the eggs you have the red blur across the road after that to where you have the literal chicken cross the road message you know what I mean yeah yeah and then you don't have a follow-up yeah how does that happen you know what okay there's two options here option one is Greg is probably someone who writes elsewhere right we keep saying Greg

that's probably not their real name but whoever I cannot find the name of the person who apologize whoever the author is probably writes elsewhere so the Gregory 88 was like oh let me do a fun little Twitter ARG so it was something they were kind of doing off the dome you know and then I think they wrote themselves into a corner right

like they get they get near the end and they're like they were asking themselves a lot of the questions we were like well what does the thing look like what does it do what Isaiah what dude Greg's follows on Twitter

is the fucking writing cast for Big Mouse What is happening? What is happening, dude? He follows Nick Crowell and John Mullaney. What is going on? Oh my God.

Did, did, was this, was this Twitter, ARG written by a big mouth writer? There's no way. Oh my God. Oh, God. This is John Mullaney. Oh, God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

I'm done. I'm done with this. Did we just get rolled super hard? This is, I can't tell if I just got trolled or what's going on, but this, I, I, we have to, I'm going to let the, the listeners and the, I'm going to let the listeners and the viewers figure this one out of their own, but I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I don't even know what I'm, okay, hold on. Let me propose one more theory about the author, sure, if it's not a big mouth writer, or, or, or someone who wrote somewhere else, they were just passively riding, making it, and then I think they wrote themselves into a corner of like, okay, well, he wants to stay because I didn't really give him a reason to and the eyeless ladies there but I didn't really give a reason for that so they're like okay I'm ending it one series of tweets we're done right or here's my other theory that I thought about while we're reading this do you know what this whole thing sounds like to me what this sounds like a college writing project oh it could be like an assignment yes I hear a ton because it takes place over the course of a winter break right well not quite it starts a bit earlier because it told them to start earlier but it pretty much takes place over yeah over the course of winter break right so uh like from 2018 to 2019 i hear a bunch of college assignments people will tag me in them sometimes and be like hey i made this twitter thread for university i'm taking a writing class

and we had to do a story using twitter or we had to do a story using like uh instagram or whatever right like they'll use they'll incorporate social media into assignments yeah and the setup of oh i'm a grad student my grandfather has a house it sounds like they came up with the basic premise they did some stuff and then oh the assignment's almost done I better wrap it up now that's what it kind of feels like to me I could see that I mean I could see that

the thing too is I don't know if I agree with writing in a corner because you set up so many angles it's like you're well I mean they wrote themselves into a corner right before the last post like when they added all the different stuff yeah yeah early on there's a lot of opportunity

I'm saying that your theory of it being an assignment makes a lot more sense where it's like oh it's a deadline so it's just got to be done because everything else is they set up they set up a lot of great things in it you know yeah um so i i i don't know i think that like they had all the actions and all the avenues and it seemed like they had enough traction and people were excited about it to where you could write this thing in so many different doses of like oh i do updates every three days i do updates every month or something like that um because here's the thing too is you can't leave it on like all right i'll be back i'm going to come back and i will see

if I can defeat the giant chicken or puberty monster that's plaguing the puberty monster and then never touch it again it's like you would have to end in a way where it's just like oh kind of like um kind of like what what story did we read where it was kind of like I'm going back uh I'm going to go back and I'm going to see what I can do I think that was stair on the stairs right where it was like hey this is my post I'm going to go see what I can do um I let you know what happens to get back did stairs in that way? Because there's more parts to stairs. I'm trying to remember what story we read that.

I'm trying to remember what we read. Because there's more sections to stairs besides what we read that was like made later. True. Yeah, that's true. It may have ended that way. Ending in a way where it's like, hey, I try doing something. I'll let you know what happens. And then you don't post to where it's like, oh, Ted the Caver.

That's what I was thinking of. Ted the Caver, he's like, hey. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going back in. Really, if you think about it, Ted the Caver was the first creepcast episode before it was creepcast. So that's fun. But yeah, yeah, yeah. so I think like that is how I see like that's maybe we maybe a way you can end it but you can't like just have the story where it's like by the way I had it on Zillow I took it off Zillow I'm not going to sell it and it's just that kind of thing I don't know you know what I'm curious to hear what people have to say I'll go you know what I'll be this pretentious I'll be this awful about it I think January the 5th 2019 they were they were about to go to school the next day or the next couple days it was that weekend he makes the thread

turns in the assignment then he gets on the account and makes the what eight tweets that are like uh i may update this later by like that that's my call i think it was an assignment of some kind it's why it's a power move that's why it hasn't been picked up since then which for a college assignment or for an early writer this is fun it's got great bones i think there's a lot more you can do with it i think if this is a first draft of a story excellent great i just wish that maybe it spent a little bit more time in the writer's room so to speak because there's so much good potential whoever wrote this has great

Gibbs as a writer has great stuff to go forward with and I think they can adapt a lot of these ideas into something really impressive yeah again the only the only reason I have any frustration with this is because it's so cool because I yeah I mean like you know we can we can reiterate that all day of like

we're not saying that it's like poorly we're just saying that it had all the opportunity to do something really crazy and cool and it just like felt like it you pulled the rug out from underneath it too fast so you know it's a fun one i will um i will also add um unless it this was written by nick kroll in which case you got me i mean dude if it's if it's the biggest big mouth troll on earth and we're just like reading into something that they did for an episode i'm going to feel like such a fucking dumb ass i don't know what to do with myself

well it was 20 it was 2018 2019 i don't think so i will say this though go to the account and see what their one-like tweet is. I feel like this is a good ending for you. It's Alexandra on 1-619, which was before the story was done. Gregory, oh my God, is she a twin? Does she used to live in the house? Maybe she's your mom's sister. There you go.

I think you were right. I think that's passive confirmation that you were right. I feel like it's, I feel like it was an obvious thing where I feel like if it would have been given more time and stuff, I think it would have been a really fun reveal I think having her just clumsily kind of show up and I will be critiquing this way too I think just having her show up and be like let me tell you what happened

and he's like okay guys I'm gonna talk to this crazy woman who's been leaving Blair Witch style stuff inside my house I'll be back I'll be back yeah guys I'm back here's what she said I got the Lord dump

yeah yeah I got the Lord dump I think you you know what I want this to happen I want Gregory 88 to come back I want to see the story adapted more of like the grandfather aspects more of the town aspects I think it could be fun but because I really like the ideas

but yeah I think there there were definitely mistakes made but it wasn't ruined like the story's not broken or anything I would like to see it yeah I had fun reading it it was a good time I'd like to see it come back

I had fun reading it I'm like I said I know I've said it a billion times I'm curious to hear what people say like what people think of it and just because there's so many people are the people who listen to this show who comment on like YouTube and stuff some of the things that the theories they have

are so fun to read that I'm like you know it always adds a whole new level to the story experience so we're gonna leave it in your hands and once again this has been this has been Gregory 88 first Twitter ARG I will say the Twitter ARG I thought it was fun I'm still to read more of these it's fun to see it in these little

bite size kind of ways of having to keep in mind of like Twitter's word count cap and stuff like that so it's a lot of fun I'm stoked to go into it as well and I'm curious to see if there's any other Twitter ARGs

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I had a great time enjoyed it I will say that at the time this episode goes up I think there's like eight hours left or something close to that to get my Windegoon T-shirt here and Windegoon Beanie. Which I love that shirt, dude. Oh, thank you. That's very kind.

It's so fun. I'll get you and your wife one then. I appreciate that. But yeah. Don't get her anything. I just want it for myself. I'll get you. I'll get you too then.

How's that sound? There you go. And a size that's far too small for me that you could definitely fit in. Yeah. You're getting a excess for sure. Yeah. And someday we'll have to have to have. some nice creepcast merch. I think we're just waiting a bit

until we get into that. And, uh, you know, before we, before we start doing that. But yeah, like I said, be sure to go check out the shop on, is it just windagoon.com? It's windagoon. Wendigoon.com. It's windagoon. So windagoon.com. Yeah. It's, it's going to be available for like 12 hours after this is up. Uh, so if you missed it, you missed it. But if you want to get it on, get it while you can. Other than that, uh, be sure to go follow Gregory 88. Uh, the E is spelled with a three. Follow Gregory 88 on Twitter in case. the story ever starts up i'd really love to see it do that um but other than that yeah i think so

i got thank you all for watching very good thank you all so much for watching or listening from wherever you are we appreciate you and stay spooked see you all later bye